full-disclosure - RE: M$ - so what should they do?

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From: scosol at scosol.org (scosol@...sol.org)
Subject: RE:  M$ - so what should they do?

ktabic wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 15:42 -0400, joe wrote:
> 
> 
>>ActiveX/OLE/COM is, again, not core Windows. They are applications that run
>>on Windows. The default user interfaces on the system use these for
>>management of the system and they are heavily embedded in several user faced
>>applications such as IE so that you may think they are core Windows but they
>>are not. One of the best responses on this list in the last couple of days
>>was from Ondra, go look for it. 
> 
> 
> Not to disagree with you on ActiveX et al, but with Microsoft's
> representatives swearing under oath that they can't remove IE from
> Windows with out breaking Windows, suggests to me that *they* considor
> IE a core component to Windows

Well we all know why *that* is- it doesn't discredit the statement at all.

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