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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. A little test by DarkMantle · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Open up "My Computer" and in the address bar type. http://www.slashdot.org

    No new windows, the toolbar changes, and my web page loads in Windows Explorer, but it looks like IE.

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  2. But. . . by oneandoneis2 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    I thought that MS's argument a while back, when challenged about abusing their monopoly by bundling IE, was that the browser WAS an integral part of the OS?

    Now that they're being picked up on that as a bad idea, they're suddenly saying it's NOT part of the OS?

    Isn't this a "have cake and eat it" situation? It's part of the OS when lawsuits are involved, but completely separate when security issues are raised.

    Or did I misunderstand something somewhere?

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    So.. it has come to this