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IE Developer Responds to Mozilla Accusations
sriram_2001 writes "Dave Massy, a Microsoft employee who works on the Internet Explorer team has a response to the Mozilla Foundation's Mitchell Baker's comments. Specifically, he responds to the claim that IE is a part of the operating system. 'IE is part of the Windows Operating System so that parts of the OS and other applications can rely on the functionality and APIs being present. To be clear there are no Operating System APIs that IE uses that are not documented on MSDN as part of the platform SDK and available to other browsers and any other software that runs on Windows..'
This is not meant to be read by geeks, it's for PHBs. Either that or I'll have some of what he's smoking.
Justin.
You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
"But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the
..."
last nine month."
"Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them,
yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention
to them had you? I mean like actually telling anybody or anything."
"But the plans were on display
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a torch."
"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked
filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying
Beware of the Leopard."
That's the sound lusers make as they get their so-called browsers hijacked and spywared to death.
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
And IE is interrupted as a very last resort,
And the address of the memory makes your FireFox abort,
Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.
If your cursor finds a IE link followed by a dash,
And the VBScript code puts your windows in the trash,
And your data is corrupted because IE and Firefox clash,
Then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash!
The employees at Microsoft are pure geniuses. I mean, look how long they have been able to pull off shit like this and still profit. Either that or the general public is stupid, which makes Microsoft look intelligent.
XeRo
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say
I see you're trying to counter the open source movement... Let's get started! Would you like to:
-Spell check
-Grammar check
-Print this document
-Connect to Microsoft Office Online
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"If you think you have things under control, you're not going fast enough." --Mario Andretti
You might want to check your spelling when you're making a very public argument about how your software is not more prone to vulnerabilities than another.
Who proofreads blog entries? That's like clicking the Preview button on Slashdot.
My business plan is ruined! That's Microsoft for you: wait until you depend on a documented part of their OS, and then they slide it out from under you! "IE isn't done until AC's product won't run!"
What exactly is rocket surgery - sounds dangerous.
They bought Macs and are too busy actually getting things done to post here about the latest response from an IE developer.
Well, 512 millibits would indeed be a joke, but if you meant 'MB' for megabytes, then your definition of 'joke' must be different from mine...
You've never ever gotten laid in your life, have you?
"To be clear there are no Operating System APIs that IE uses that are not documented on MSDN as part of the platform SDK and available to other browsers and any other software that runs on Windows."
"...and, even if there were, it would be illegal [under US law] for you to acknowledge, discuss, investigate or use them. So there."