Is anyone really surprised that the French, Germans, Koreans, and Japanese are beating us at downloading copious amounts of porn? Different countries have different priorities. Once the British and French outdid us in useless foreign military adventures, now we have them handily beat in that arena.

It takes all kinds in this crazy world of ours.

*sigh* So they are STILL trying to put bandaids on their old, insecure, highly-patched (and therefore low quality) software rather than ditching insecure communications protocols and writing a simpler browser that is secure from the gound up.

Yep - Microsoft is all in favor of security - so long as it maintains backward compatibility and they don't have to throw anything away.