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[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Friday 08 February 2008 07:52, jdd wrote:
>   
> > Randall R Schulz a écrit :
> >     
> > > even Microsoft would commit such a technological travesty for the
> > > sake of thwarting a lawsuit or some regulations.
> > >       
> > fact is many windows applications don't run at all if not used as
> > administrator, and this opens all.
> >     
>
> Be that as it may, there is a huge difference between running an 
> application (or all applications) with administrative privileges and 
> being a part of the kernel. The former, while something we all know and 
> agree is a bad idea, is not an engineering travesty (it's a security 
> travesty). The latter most certainly is an egregious violation of OS 
> design principles. And while I do think Linux is technologically 
> superior to Windows in very many ways, I don't think MS OS engineers 
> are foolish enough to put application code in the kernel.
>
>   

Here's some Wikipedia stuff on it.  My impression is that there are a
lot of good employees at Microsoft who want to do the right thing,
including the engineers, but they get overruled by Bill & Steve, if for
competitive advantage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft

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