Apple Gets Bad Press from Microsoft for Acting Like Microsoft
by
Brett Bumeter
Many people have been complaining about Apple’s recent foray into automatic updates as they pushed their software browser, safari, on thousands of people that happened to have itunes installed on their machine. This is a tactic and device that Microsoft has used for years to automatically update and install programs and software on people’s machines. It was also one that Microsoft drew a lot of flak over.
So there was no small irony this week when Microsoft announced that Apple’s move into this type of deceptive distribution of software created a security breach for PC users around the world.
“Security Advisory (953818) does not refer to vulnerability in either Safari or Windows,” Tim Rains, security response communications lead for Microsoft said in a statement sent to InternetNews.com.
“Rather, it describes a blended threat in which files may be downloaded to a user’s machine without prompting, allowing them to be executed. This results from a combination of the default download location in Safari and how the Windows desktop handles executables.”
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Many people would like to believe that Apple is smarter and nicer than this, but the truth is that unfortunately this type of software distribution works and Apple will and has used it just like other companies have and will into the future no matter how much IQair they take and no matter how much their fans and customers wish they would not.
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