by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @01:12PM (#53874097)
Yep, and I'd bet Microsoft is fuming right now over it. (For those who don't know that lawsuit was about Microsoft bundling a web browser with Windows, abusing their position as an OS developer, and trying to force their competition out of the market. Microsoft lost the initial case, filed an appeal, and ultimately settled for allowing manufacturers to chose non-Microsoft software. Google is basically doing the same thing right now, (by tying system level applications to their web business) and getting away with it.)
Offtopic but, See also: ActiveX and Active Desktop. The web lately seems to be pushing back toward making more of the OS dependent on the internet, and more applications just fancy web front ends. Which is great for programmers, but bad for system security. (Because automatically executing code from a random web server that links out to other servers for more code to run is always such a good idea.....*facepalm*)
Microsoft testified that they could not remove the browser from the OS without breaking it.
Try and remove Safari from macOS and you see the same issue. Microsoft was ahead of the curve using browser components in the OS, now everybody does it.
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Yep, and I'd bet Microsoft is fuming right now over it. (For those who don't know that lawsuit was about Microsoft bundling a web browser with Windows, abusing their position as an OS developer, and trying to force their competition out of the market. Microsoft lost the initial case, filed an appeal, and ultimately settled for allowing manufacturers to chose non-Microsoft software. Google is basically doing the same thing right now, (by tying system level applications to their web business) and getting away with it.)
Offtopic but, See also: ActiveX and Active Desktop. The web lately seems to be pushing back toward making more of the OS dependent on the internet, and more applications just fancy web front ends. Which is great for programmers, but bad for system security. (Because automatically executing code from a random web server that links out to other servers for more code to run is always such a good idea.....*facepalm*)
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> For those who don't know that lawsuit was about Microsoft bundling a web browser with Windows
Not just bundling, but integrating the browser. Microsoft testified that they could not remove the browser from the OS without breaking it.
Of course it's only cuz they designed it that way, but that was their defense.
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Microsoft testified that they could not remove the browser from the OS without breaking it.
Try and remove Safari from macOS and you see the same issue. Microsoft was ahead of the curve using browser components in the OS, now everybody does it.