Bruce McCulley wrote:
>
> Even worse, I heard the morning radio news quoting Gates as saying that it
> would be harder to protect against such virus outbreaks if Microsoft were
> broken up.
>
> There ought to be some legal liability associated with knowingly telling
> such untruths!
>
> --Bruce McCulley
>
Let me get this right. The problem is that Outlook, WSH, & Windows
are so integrated that the platform can't tell the difference, Outlook
calls on WSH to run some VBS code that inserts bad stuff into
Windows. Keeping the company that gave us this together will help
because they will be able to better "integrate" the two, so that they
can stop viruses. However, breaking up the company would put chinese
firewalls between this stuff, you wouldn't be able to integrate to
that level, which means the virus would stop when it hits the wall,
without effort. So we should keep the company together?
Yea, about like their proposal for "opening up" the code: they will
"open up the parts of windows such that ISVs can write code that runs
on Windows." That sounds to me like the APIs for Windows will be
opened up enough that Corel, Borland, Adobe, Symantic, etc, can write
Windows apps, unlike now, where the APIs are opened up enough that
Corel, Borland, Adobe, Symantic, etc, write Windows apps. Yep, big
concessions here. Of course, under no circumstances would MS Apps
division use any "undocumented" APIs. I mean, they don't now, right?
It's fully documented, right? MS says so. "Undocumented Windows" et
al don't really exist, right?
MS ethics at work.
jeff
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