Microsoft Outlook Distress

Once again, Microsoft discloses 'critical' security flaws. I'm getting tired of all these warnings about security holes in Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, etc. Can't Cousin Bill protect his code a little better? Maybe devote one of his many billions to that? Of course, when you think about it, a significant reason why Microsoft's wares are so vulnerable to attack is that they dominate the browser and software market--so it's their products that the hackers and virus creators aim their insidious efforts at. (If Netscape was the dominant web browser/e-mail client, you can bet that most of the viruses would be designed for that product.) The price of monopolizing the software biz is constant vigilence, it seems.