Actually, Microsoft Office isn't all that compatible with Microsoft Office, when you are talking about different versions.
The file format has stayed the same in Office 97 > 2000 > XP (2002) > 2003
That is 10 years where 4 different versions can read the other version files without add-ins.
Windows can do by using the RunAs option / command.
Create a user and give them ACL access to the Mozilla program folder. You can then run Mozilla as the locked down user by right-clicking on the exe and choosing the "RunAs..." option OR you can create a shortcut using the command below...
Example:
runas/user:LockedDownUserName "mozilla.exe"
It will then prompt you for the password for that user. In fact, Microsoft didn't even allow the password as a parameter lest users get used to that and end up leaving the password exposed in unsecure batch files/shortcuts.
This isn't utilized as much b/c of 2 reasons:
1. Many applications are written with the assumption that they have Admin or Power User permissions - this requires developer training
2. This makes it more difficult to use your computer from an end-user standpoint. They don't even understand the concept of Admin/root, never mind additional levels of security.
Please tell me why losing all the documents/files/data you personally created is better then reinstalling an OS/apps, which are available on CDs and the net?
Hopefully, you have a good back-up plan, but my personal files are 100x more important then any 3rd party binaries.
No one has issues that databases use ONE FILE for..ummm... everything as well. All the financial data for a company, all the orders for an ecommerce site, etc.
Yet the registry, which is really a DB in of itself, gets criticized for the same exact thing.
Both have measures to prevent corruption and perform some type of backup routine, etc.
"In discussions with representatives of the Mozilla Foundation, they conceded this indeed was a bug and didn't try to foist the blame on to Microsoft. And that's because they know what's usually perfectly obvious: that browsers are supposed to look suspiciously at content and try to protect the user. There's little to be gained by a defense that it's Windows fault, not when you wrote the application to tell Windows to run whatever content comes up.
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But even IE in Windows XP SP1 behaves more reasonably. Its behavior is identical to that of a straight href of the program file. The user is asked if they want to save or open the file and are given a clear warning that the program could be hazardous.
How did Microsoft get Internet Explorer do this? It actually looks as if IE just stripped the 'shell:' from the link and treated it like a regular href. This is an interesting thought, still the important point here is that Microsoft didn't just take a program name and tell Windows to execute it. "
Which is by design - and I'm not being sarcastic.
Local web pages have different access rights then ones over the web. Which is why an outisde web page with that URI won't work in IE but typing it into the address bar will.
Which explains why IE has zones like "Internet" vs. "Local Intranet", etc. Typing it into the address bar is equivalent to running an exe from the command line.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622074,00.as p
"In discussions with representatives of the Mozilla Foundation, they conceded this indeed was a bug and didn't try to foist the blame on to Microsoft. And that's because they know what's usually perfectly obvious: that browsers are supposed to look suspiciously at content and try to protect the user. There's little to be gained by a defense that it's Windows fault, not when you wrote the application to tell Windows to run whatever content comes up."
DirectX covers much more then just the 3D Graphics Library. It includes an API for the sound mixing and output and input (game controllers, joysticks, steering wheels)
What you are comparing is Direct3D(!) vs. OpenGL
Thus, the original statement is still true, since OpenGL does not provide an API for the many sound cards and input devices out there. DirectX does.
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Actually, Microsoft Office isn't all that compatible with Microsoft Office, when you are talking about different versions.
The file format has stayed the same in Office 97 > 2000 > XP (2002) > 2003 That is 10 years where 4 different versions can read the other version files without add-ins.
Create a user and give them ACL access to the Mozilla program folder. You can then run Mozilla as the locked down user by right-clicking on the exe and choosing the "RunAs..." option OR you can create a shortcut using the command below...
Example:
It will then prompt you for the password for that user. In fact, Microsoft didn't even allow the password as a parameter lest users get used to that and end up leaving the password exposed in unsecure batch files/shortcuts.
This isn't utilized as much b/c of 2 reasons:
1. Many applications are written with the assumption that they have Admin or Power User permissions - this requires developer training
2. This makes it more difficult to use your computer from an end-user standpoint. They don't even understand the concept of Admin/root, never mind additional levels of security.
agreed. What is more important to me - personal files that can't be replaced or software (OS, programs) that I can reinstall.
"I might lose my $HOME"
Please tell me why losing all the documents/files/data you personally created is better then reinstalling an OS/apps, which are available on CDs and the net?
Hopefully, you have a good back-up plan, but my personal files are 100x more important then any 3rd party binaries.
IMO - both situations are equally terrible.
You do realize that BMP has been around since DOS/Windows 1.0 or around there, making it almost 20 years old. PNG is from 95/96.
No one has issues that databases use ONE FILE for ..ummm... everything as well. All the financial data for a company, all the orders for an ecommerce site, etc.
Yet the registry, which is really a DB in of itself, gets criticized for the same exact thing.
Both have measures to prevent corruption and perform some type of backup routine, etc.
"In discussions with representatives of the Mozilla Foundation, they conceded this indeed was a bug and didn't try to foist the blame on to Microsoft. And that's because they know what's usually perfectly obvious: that browsers are supposed to look suspiciously at content and try to protect the user. There's little to be gained by a defense that it's Windows fault, not when you wrote the application to tell Windows to run whatever content comes up.
...
But even IE in Windows XP SP1 behaves more reasonably. Its behavior is identical to that of a straight href of the program file. The user is asked if they want to save or open the file and are given a clear warning that the program could be hazardous.
How did Microsoft get Internet Explorer do this? It actually looks as if IE just stripped the 'shell:' from the link and treated it like a regular href. This is an interesting thought, still the important point here is that Microsoft didn't just take a program name and tell Windows to execute it. "
Which is by design - and I'm not being sarcastic. Local web pages have different access rights then ones over the web. Which is why an outisde web page with that URI won't work in IE but typing it into the address bar will. Which explains why IE has zones like "Internet" vs. "Local Intranet", etc. Typing it into the address bar is equivalent to running an exe from the command line. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622074,00.as p
"In discussions with representatives of the Mozilla Foundation, they conceded this indeed was a bug and didn't try to foist the blame on to Microsoft. And that's because they know what's usually perfectly obvious: that browsers are supposed to look suspiciously at content and try to protect the user. There's little to be gained by a defense that it's Windows fault, not when you wrote the application to tell Windows to run whatever content comes up."
DirectX covers much more then just the 3D Graphics Library. It includes an API for the sound mixing and output and input (game controllers, joysticks, steering wheels) What you are comparing is Direct3D(!) vs. OpenGL Thus, the original statement is still true, since OpenGL does not provide an API for the many sound cards and input devices out there. DirectX does.