What you have to understand about Microsoft is they are extremely good at deception.
Make no doubt about it, they are smart, if not in software, in market dynamics and legal dynamics. Trust me, I know, I've seen documents I can't discuss. They _NEVER_ let a ruling like the Lawsuit mentioned below go by so easily; unless there's an advantage. When VISTA is released and SPARKLE is released and Microsoft has not taken steps to hack them or prevent their quality as was PROVEN in the SUN JAVA case that Microsoft first licensed Java, then "hacked the code" put it in IE to make it perform poorly. This is all documented; and resulted in a $20M fine and fixing the hack that was purposely put in there as was concluded. The same happened to Apple QuickTime back in the 90's -- Microsoft, hacked certain parts of Windows undocumented APIs and other components to ensure QuickTime performed poorly. Mr. Rick Segal, who has since, as has been said by someone else -- not me -- has either "fled the country or was fired" spoke out about this very incident in a posting a few years back that I have documented. And in another quote "If Microsoft could get the source code to fix it, they would" speaking about the Blue Mountain v Microsoft issue where the same kind of deceitfulness occured with Outlook. There is no reason why Macromedia/Adobe should trust Microsoft -- let alone now with VISTA and SPARKLE authoring planned, and ZAM3D will assist in this. There are certain kinds of people, or companies, that you can NEVER TRUST. And Microsoft is one of them. Sure there are realities involved. But it would be wise for someone at Adobe/Macromedia to keep their eye on this issue. I'm involved in an appeal myself and I can tell you -- it's low down dirty stuff, and it's, in one case, threatening. Would you "sic" your dog on a young college graduate who came out with a proprietary technology. Would you then do things prior to "sic'ing" your dog on them that were downright dishonest and deceitful. I think that's enough picture -- I really can't say more. I only speak of events that are documented on the web already that I've collected into a large cross-referencing database to other books and public interog. gathered. -r --- Dave Carabetta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/6/06, Robert Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I just updated my IE explorer, and unless something else is going on, now > > Internet Explorer > puts a > > huge selector around any FLEX/Flash Movies -- I mean on ANY site and I've > > been to many > already. > > > > Has anyone else experienced this when updating their IE ??? > > > > I'm not sure everyone understands some of the things I know about how > > Microsoft operates > > (internally). > > > > They are currently in the midst of plans to overcome Flash and it's > > cross-platform popularity. > > > > This is probably one of the few things they can do -- make Flash look ugly > > in IE by putting a > > selector around it. > > > > There are many reasons VISTA and SPARKLE are changing back and forth on > > release dates and > > features; they just can't beat Flash or FLEX 2.0 > > > > This has been discussed ad nauseum recently. It's a patch to comply > with the Eolas lawsuit. Search the HoF archives...there's even been a > workaround posted. > > Regards, > Dave. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
