Spyware shmyware and why Microsoft shouldn’t whine
by dreamer on Sep.25, 2009, under Fedora
Our beloved company recently showed concerns about Google’s new Chrome Frame plugin for Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8. This plugin enables the use of HTML5 for the widely used browser, which in turn enables users to make use of new web-technologies such as Google Wave and others that use the new standard.
Microsoft highly objects to this plugin, because according to them it undermines the integrity of the browser and supposes it features new security risks.
Of course this plugin is not enabled automatically and it needs a special tag in the website featured to be activated. [more]
But, as some may remember, Microsoft has the same dirty (probably even dirtier) tricks up it’s sleeve to “cripple” someone else’s product.
Using Windows Update they install a plugin for Firefox which enables some extra .NET functionality. The big difference is: the plugin of Google needs to be installed manually; while the one from MS is included in this update and can’t even be removed from within the browser! [more]
So please Microsoft, stop being such a hypocrite.
(not like this blogpost will change anything..)
October 18th, 2009 on 10:24 am
‘these addons have a high risk of causing stability or security problems …’ <– my firefox was warning me about how these microsoft plugins created security problems… hahaha, the irony