Google Docs Feature Limited by Windows Vista
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| While working in a Google Doc on my Windows Vista computer,
| I noticed something new. It seems cut and paste doesn't fully work.
| By 'fully' I mean that it works if you use keyboard shortcuts
| (ctrl-c, ctrl-v), or by choosing copy or paste from the Edit menu,
| but not if you right-click...
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http://sojoe.info/2007/01/15/google-docs-feature-limited-by-windows-vista/
It's probably not deliberate, but making it inconvenient (or slow) to work
with rival software is something that worked against Netscape, for example.
Related:
Working around IE7s prompt bug, er feature
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| So while every other browser on the planet can handle javascript
| prompts -- and have done so, pretty much since javascript was
| first stuffed inside the browser -- Microsoft didn't have the
| resources to deal with it and so, effectively, disabled it.
|
| [...]
|
| This stops javascript from continuing until the prompt box is
| addressed, then and only then will the alert box appear. The
| modality of the prompt box prevents javascript from moving on
| until the user has performed some action on the box.
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http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Working_around_IE7s_prompt_bug,_er_feature
Microsoft used undocumented Windows APIs - Iowa testimony
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| Alepin had earlier claimed that Microsoft ran special demonstration
| programs whose sole purpose was to crash rival products and alleged
| that the company had subverted developers who used Microsoft's
| version of Java 'thinking they were developing multi-platform
| applications, but were actually developing Windows-specific
| applications'.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/101947/microsoft-used-undocumented-windows-apis-iowa-testimony.html
FLOSS Weekly 14: Jeremy Allison of Samba
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| 'In the section of the interview from around 33m30s to 39m00 Jeremy
| Allison reports how he was told that the Microsoft team implementing
| SMB2 were ordered to "f**k with Samba".'
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http://www.twit.tv/floww14
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