Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Friday 08 February 2008 07:21, James Knott wrote:
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There are a lot of fundamental flaws in Windows, that create security risks. One is the way IE is tied into the kernel, so that a user app runs in kernel space.
Do you know this for a fact? If so, how do you know? Where did you learn it?
It really is very hard to believe, since it is such a gross violation of the principles of operating system design. I find it hard to believe even Microsoft would commit such a technological travesty for the sake of thwarting a lawsuit or some regulations.
I have read about it in a couple of different sources, but don't have any handy at the moment. Read up on Netscape vs MS for the why. And does bad software design from Microsoft surprise you? There is certainly no technical reason for them to tie IE so closely to the operating system, yet that is precisely what they claimed. As for other such travesties, read up on Caldera vs Microsoft, which describes how Windows 3.x would test for DR-DOS and then fail with a bogus error message or how MS-CDEX would fail if it found it was running on OS/2, or how Microsoft used extortion against computer vendors (including IBM) who wanted to sell other operating systems, in addition to Windows. Or how when Borland investigated why their app performance was so poor, compared to MS apps, found MS was reserving certain hidden API for themselves, which delivered better performance. There are many reasons why MS has found itself on the losing end of lawsuits. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org