I found an article in the Washington Post, read it, that caught my eye this afternoon.

It had to do with the potential ability, yet undocumented, to use the voice-recognition feature built into Vista to do delete files on your hard disk.

The first comment made by a reader named Joe sent me ballistic. It was one of those days.

Joe said, “Gotta love Microsoft’s defense — “this attack will only work if you’re actually -using- the super-duper cool features that we put into the OS to try to con you into buying it…”"

So the FUD begins.

If you have an understanding of what has to be done for this to work, then you would also understand that it is more likely that you will be bitten by a spider and become Spiderman.

Cynics, like Joe, do nothing but spread their dislike for Microsoft. When, in fact, the blame should be, most often, on the third party driver and software manufacturer and the user.

Yes, as it turns out, no matter how secure an operating system is made, the hole that cannot be patched is the user.

The are so many steps that must be in just the right place at just the right time for this to even possibly work, that I’m sure we will never hear of a documented occurrence of it really happening.

So, this is FUD.

Since 95.9% of computer users world wide are using some form of Windows (see Forbes reference here http://www.itfacts.biz/index.php?id=P8018), don’t you think it is better to help educate them on the proper use and protection of their system then copping out by blaming Microsoft for everything?