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IE Developer Responds to Mozilla Accusations

Posted by Zonk on from the other-side-of-the-coin dept.

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..'

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  1. Re:what i want from Firefox... by LEgregius · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can do that from windows explorer, and you could before IE was "part of the os," so that's a windows core function, not an IE function. As for browsing pages from a server like that, click on the files in the browser once you navigate to them.

  2. IE's Win Connections arethe Problem by sjvn · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

    Guys, uh guys, that's The Problem.

    http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1776387,00. asp

    To sum my thoughts in that story up, you have a gateway, IE, to the Internet that has deep, Inadequately Protected, connections to the core operating system.

    IE, in specific, and Windows, in general, cannot be secured.

    Microsoft's one seamless whole is really one giant security hole.

    Steven