Re: IE part of the operating system
- From: "Paul Baker" <paulb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:53:51 -0500
Many people would agree with you.
Microsoft seems to be trying to make file systems synonymous with Internet
protocols like FTP and HTTP and, renders "pretty" HTML as part of a folder
view in Explorer and uses hyperlinks all over the place. It's quite an
accomplishment in terms of functionality and "prettiness", but many would
agree with you that the integration has gone much too far.
Note only this, but many would agree that Internet Explorer has far too many
ways to customize the behaviour and inject code.
It should be mentioned, though, that most of the security loopholes in
Internet Explorer are found only when browing, not when using Windows
Explorer to browse your file systems.
Bear in mind that most of this integration and ability to customize was
completed in the last millenium when the average Microsoft customer's focus
was more on functionality than security. Microsoft can't very well backtrack
as much as you would like at this point. But they do continue to offer
security enhancements and better locked-down configurations.
Paul
"Dominique" <Dominique@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:233BCA3B-A776-48FE-97B2-FF7D09FD2760@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Hello!
>
> Why is the IE a part of the operating system? I think Windows will be a
> lot
> secure if the IE is just an application. And if you do this you don't have
> to
> patch Windows so often.
>
>
> Greetings,
> /Dominique
>
> Germany.
>
.
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