Innovative Thinking at Microsoft
Nov. 30th, 2003 12:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gizaProgrammer 1: "Hey, guys, we've really got to do something about the security problems we've been having with IE lately. Any ideas?"
Programmer 2: "I've got an idea! My CS prof used to joke that you could solve any problem by adding one more layer of abstraction. In this case, it's true. Imagine how totally cool it would be if IE was just a regular application. Right now we've got it tangled up in the OS, but if you think about it, there's really no good reason for that. I mean, why does IE need special priviledges just to load files and render some HTML? If we pull it out of the OS, it'll still work fine, and it'll just naturally be subject to all the OS-level protection mechanisms we've got."
Programmer 1: "What?! You're talking madness, man! Are you saying that we should subject one of our own applications to the same forces we use to prevent third parties from gaining too much market share? Egads, that's brilliant! I'll bet we can even patent that..."
Programmer 3: "Guys, the idea certainly sounds cool, but it won't work. Bill said it's impossible. Don't you remember that Netscape trial thing? I know we're not supposed to ever talk about it, but he said it was impossible during his taped deposition. If Bill says it's impossible..."
Programmer 2: "...then it must be impossible. You're right."
Porgrammer 1: "Damn, you're right. Seemed like such a good idea."
(Source: Slashdot)
Programmer 2: "I've got an idea! My CS prof used to joke that you could solve any problem by adding one more layer of abstraction. In this case, it's true. Imagine how totally cool it would be if IE was just a regular application. Right now we've got it tangled up in the OS, but if you think about it, there's really no good reason for that. I mean, why does IE need special priviledges just to load files and render some HTML? If we pull it out of the OS, it'll still work fine, and it'll just naturally be subject to all the OS-level protection mechanisms we've got."
Programmer 1: "What?! You're talking madness, man! Are you saying that we should subject one of our own applications to the same forces we use to prevent third parties from gaining too much market share? Egads, that's brilliant! I'll bet we can even patent that..."
Programmer 3: "Guys, the idea certainly sounds cool, but it won't work. Bill said it's impossible. Don't you remember that Netscape trial thing? I know we're not supposed to ever talk about it, but he said it was impossible during his taped deposition. If Bill says it's impossible..."
Programmer 2: "...then it must be impossible. You're right."
Porgrammer 1: "Damn, you're right. Seemed like such a good idea."
(Source: Slashdot)
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Date: 2003-11-30 10:32 am (UTC)Since I installed Mozilla I've had NO crashes, NO popups, and NO security holes! Heaven forbid MS should create a decent piece of software that's better than something a third party company threw together. =(
Same stuff, different pile.
Date: 2003-11-30 09:29 pm (UTC)I hate it when Netscape or Mozilla crashes and hangs X in the process, but at least I can pretend that's not a frequent occurrence =o.o=.
Thank goodness for the "Die, X, Die" hotkeys.
-Deuce
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Date: 2003-12-01 07:21 am (UTC)