endersshadow
March 23rd, 2006, 02:32 AM
http://www.businessweek.com/mediacenter/podcasts/techmaven/techandu_03_09_06.htm
Microsoft's Next Browser
Back in the mid-1990s, security experts warned Microsoft that integrating a Web browser deeply into Windows was a mistake. A decade and countless security vulnerabilities later, Microsoft is tacitly conceding the critics had it right. The new version of Internet Explorer to be released as part of the Vista version of Windows this fall -- and separately for Windows XP -- loses much of the privileged relationship with Windows that the Microsoft browser has long enjoyed.
Regardless of what you think of Windows, I think that we can all agree that a secure internet benefits us all. With Microsoft finally modulating IE, it should be easier (relative term) to uninstall from Windows, and it will certainly make the system much more secure. It only took ten years, but hey, let's not drag up ancient history...
Modulation 1, Integration 0
Next: The Registry!
P.S.-This isn't an "OMG M$ SUXORZ!!!!1111!!!!eleven11!!" thread...it's a thread to always remember the valuable lesson that Microsoft Windows taught us: Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, EVER integrate a program that speaks to the internet into the OS at an almost irreversable level.
Microsoft's Next Browser
Back in the mid-1990s, security experts warned Microsoft that integrating a Web browser deeply into Windows was a mistake. A decade and countless security vulnerabilities later, Microsoft is tacitly conceding the critics had it right. The new version of Internet Explorer to be released as part of the Vista version of Windows this fall -- and separately for Windows XP -- loses much of the privileged relationship with Windows that the Microsoft browser has long enjoyed.
Regardless of what you think of Windows, I think that we can all agree that a secure internet benefits us all. With Microsoft finally modulating IE, it should be easier (relative term) to uninstall from Windows, and it will certainly make the system much more secure. It only took ten years, but hey, let's not drag up ancient history...
Modulation 1, Integration 0
Next: The Registry!
P.S.-This isn't an "OMG M$ SUXORZ!!!!1111!!!!eleven11!!" thread...it's a thread to always remember the valuable lesson that Microsoft Windows taught us: Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, EVER integrate a program that speaks to the internet into the OS at an almost irreversable level.