"The $500 reward is hilarious.

I don't remember Microsoft seeing an exploit shown and responding "we can't figure this out, can you give us a hint for $500?"

Can't wait to send this to my friend who thinks Firefox is 100% safe and bug-free.

By the way, Microsoft puts up $5,000,000 in rewards to catch hacker-criminals.

http://www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/default.mspx

Those efforts directly led to the capture of the Sasser worm creator."

Firstly, it's $500/vulnerability

Secondly, you fail to understand the difference between Mozilla and Microsoft. One is a non-profit organization that releases free, open-source programs while the other is a profit-driven enterprise that sells Operating Systems.

Thirdly, while Firefox can and probably will be patched up because anyone with access to the source can work on it, IE has a larger number of flaws which can only be corrected by the small group assigned to work on it at Microsoft