OK. The corporate world will disagree, and private citizens might agree.
As an individual, it drives me crazy to have a virus or hole left unplugged for a month, until Microsoft (sorry, hate to pick on that company, but they are dominant) releases security updates and fixes to companies first, then to individuals later. I, as an individual, would like the option to have MS release the update to me as soon as it becomes available. More than once I have spent hours and days struggling to fix a PC issue, only to find it resolved by a fix a month later! I want an OPT IN option for security fixes that doesn't require me to wait or waste my time. I am one person. How many others have struggled with PC issues (including the government by the way), waiting for a fix - sometimes waiting for nothing more than a predefined date.
Also, I'd like better and more complete information instead of secrecy around problems when they occur. Just these past two weeks with the latest big virus problem, there were several well known sites not behaving normally. For a few days I thought it was my PC.
Policies like these cost all of us time, money (buying fixes and PC hardware and software we might not need), and energy. We need more open and timely communication around fixes and issues.
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The negative votes tell me that corporate voters are all over this website, and the citizens are not yet focused.
I feel your pain, my solution has been to start using open source products (Ubuntu in particular).
Government regulation here is not what's needed. If you have a problem with software that is full of security flaws, don't buy it. If you encourage others to do the same it will make a more significant impact. Once a company starts losing money, they will fix the problem or go away.