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RE: M$ - so what should they do?
From: "Stuart Fox \(DSL AK\)" <StuartF () datacom co nz>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 11:32:00 +1200
[SNIP}The second one, I concur completely, get the App stuff out of the Windows folders.Which includes IE.Actually, just doing that one *alone* (splitting it out so it isn't entwined into the OS) would probably do more than anything else. But we're not likely to see that happen, not since the Microsoft witnesses swore on a Bible that IE was an integral part of the OS....
But then of course if you look at it, it's just a set of com components in a few dll's and iexplore.exe is just the glue that binds them all together. It actually probably wouldn't be that hard to remove IE from the Windows folders - just move those dll's. Of course, since there are now so many MS applications that use those components for presentation, you could argue they are an integral part of the OS (that just means they should go into C:\program files\common files or somewhere like that). _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- RE: M$ - so what should they do? Stuart Fox (DSL AK) (Jun 21)
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- RE: M$ - so what should they do? Stuart Fox (DSL AK) (Jun 21)
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- RE: M$ - so what should they do? Edge, Ronald D (Jun 22)
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- RE: RE: M$ - so what should they do? Jonathan Rickman (Jun 22)
- RE: RE: M$ - so what should they do? joe (Jun 22)
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