Yet more Windows XP security patches

Now before I continue, I just want to let everybody know that I'm NOT trying to troll here. I'm not a Microsoft-hater, but there are just some things that are inexcusable and that I MUST rant about. It's nothing new actually...about a dozen security patches to install. Happens all the time. Today, however, something just stuck in my craw. Here are the descriptions of two patches waiting to be installed:



Size: 483 KB - 566 KB

A security issue has been identified in the Plug and Play service that could allow an attacker to compromise your Microsoft Windows-based system and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.

More information for this update can be found at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=48900




Size: 494 KB - 550 KB

A security issue has been identified in the Print Spooler service that could allow an attacker to compromise your Microsoft Windows-based system and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.

More information for this update can be found at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=48902




Plug and Play? PRINT SPOOLER???? Is there ANYTHING that doesn't have a security hole in it??? What's next, a security hole in the mouse driver? I mean I understand if there's a hidden security hole in the TCP / IP stack that nobody noticed, but the Print Spooler? Plug and Play? For crying out loud...EVERY SINGLE security patch I downloaded today is to prevent "an attacker to gain control over your system". From my personal experience, it seems as if Microsoft designed Windows XP to be more accessable to the outside world than to the actual user! What's their excuse for allowing so darn many lapses in security to pass through QA?

In a nutshell, Microsoft's security sucks eggs. Why? Do they just not care (as they pretty much bend people over a barrel when it comes to buying an operating system)? Or are they just incompetent when it comes to security?
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