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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:But, I thought IE WAS part of the OS by danheskett · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It is part of the OS. That's the part of the post he made.

    IE is part of the OS primarily because it is an API that is relied on by other parts of the OS, and other 3rd party apps.

    It is rightly described as "middle-ware". Clearly, it's not a driver, or the kernel, or whatnot.

    But also clearly, it is not a single executable strapped on top.

    It's integrated, but using only methods that and API that are available to anyone to use.