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RE: At long last -- Extra Outlooks!
From: "Thor (Hammer of God)" <thor () hammerofgod com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:18:22 -0800
Well, I've heard MSFT people speak of Outlook's ability to execute the way scientists talk about how a bumble bee can fly. It does it, but they don't really know how. I won't begin to comment on the principles behind it - all I can tell you is that it is what it is. t
-----Original Message----- From: Alexander Bochmann [mailto:ab () lists gxis de] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 9:42 AM To: bugtraq () securityfocus com Subject: Re: At long last -- Extra Outlooks! ...on Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 10:28:34PM -0800, Thor (Hammer of God) wrote: > it turns out, Outlook is doing nothing close to what I feared. > Basically, the second instance sees that another Outlook window is > running in the same interactive logon space, and when it starts, it just > calls another popup in the previous Outlook space and then terminates > itself (that's close enough, anyway). The good news is that there
is
no > "user hopping" or "boundary crossing" here. Sounds comparable to what the Windows Explorer does when it is not expicitly set to run as a separate process (or started with the /separate switch). Is there some design principle behind this kind of behaviour? Alex.
Current thread:
- At long last -- Extra Outlooks! Thor (Hammer of God) (Jan 11)
- Re: At long last -- Extra Outlooks! Alexander Bochmann (Jan 11)
- Re: At long last -- Extra Outlooks! Casper . Dik (Jan 14)
- RE: At long last -- Extra Outlooks! Thor (Hammer of God) (Jan 14)
- Re: At long last -- Extra Outlooks! Francois Labreque (Jan 14)
- Re: At long last -- Extra Outlooks! Alexander Bochmann (Jan 11)