[Am-info] Windows in trouble for any html use!

[felmon davis]

On Tuesday 13 July 2004 11:28, John J. Urbaniak verily wrote:
> It's time for an all-out condemnation of the PC Press.  Back during
> the OS/Wars, the Press undeniably took the side of Microsoft.  They
> all but wiped out my small business, because my software is OS/2 -
> (now eCS-) based.
>
> If a significant number of computers were based on systems other
> than Microsoft, we would not be in these straits today.  If we had
> a significant percentage of OS/2, Apple, Linux and other operating
> systems in use, the odds of viruses propagating throughout our
> entire computing infrastructure would be drastically reduced.
>
> By allowing themselves to be co-opted by the Gang of Criminals from
> Redmond,  the Press is totally responsible for the sorry state we
> are in today.

I have to agree but I wanted to add that the CERT advisory points out 
that "Note that using a different web browser will not remove IE from 
a Windows system, and other programs may invoke IE, the WebBrowser 
ActiveX control, or the HTML rendering engine (MSHTML)."

as I recall, the entanglement of the browser in the operating system 
was also a point of (legal) dispute. I can't recall what the press 
said about it but I do recall discussions on newsgroups where the 
'ease of use' of this feature was praised.

(however a lot of systems now use browsers as file managers which 
always unnerves me a bit.)

Felmon

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Felmon Davis 
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