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ActiveX Regulations in South Korea (revisited)
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| ActiveX control is widely used by Internet Explorer to load applications or
| components in Windows. It’s a useful piece of control, but is not without
| issues. In fact, ActiveX is known for security problems.
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| Despite security short-comings, ActiveX had been welcomed into the community
| and flourished. Surprisingly, more so in banks where security is a top
| priority. Believe it or not, ActiveX is so widely used that the South Korean
| government decides to make it compulsory for all banks to have it.
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| Other major browsers have resisted supporting ActiveX. Until now. Google
| Chrome has now decided to support ActiveX, but only in South Korea.
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http://www.mobinode.com/2009/01/16/activex-regulations-in-south-korea-revisited/
Microsoft Statement on European Commission Statement of Objections
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| "Yesterday Microsoft received a Statement of Objections from the Directorate
| General for Competition of the European Commission. The Statement of
| Objections expresses the Commission's preliminary view that the inclusion of
| Internet Explorer in Windows since 1996 has violated European competition
| law. According to the Statement of Objections, other browsers are foreclosed
| from competing because Windows includes Internet Explorer. The Statement of
| Objections states that the remedies put in place by the U.S. courts in 2002
| following antitrust proceedings in Washington, D.C. do not make the inclusion
| of Internet Explorer in Windows lawful under European Union law.
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http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/microsoft-statement-on-european-commission-statement-of-objections,683386.shtml
BetaVista7 might lose its Web browser with all the poison that comes with it.
Recent:
Windows 7 Anti-Competitive in Nature?
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| Now it is time for the Windows 7 Anti-Competitive in Nature part. I opened
| IE8Beta2 and it prompted me to choose either express settings or customizable
| settings….. which do you think I picked. I did not want to search with Live
| Search. I do not want to Define with Encarta. I never want to blog with Live
| Spaces. Most of all I just want to use Google Mail instead of Windows Live
| Mail. Not that I have anything against Live mail as I do have an account and
| it does look really nice as the designers have finally figured out what we
| the customer wants. :)
|
| I had decided to go to customize the preferences… Guess what! The Windows
| Live stuff is still recommened in every box that pops up afterward! it
| doesn’t want you to use google search. It doesn’t want you to use maps with
| google or yahoo. This started to just get plain Silly as all I could do was
| to keep myself from deleting the IE8 executable from the computer and not
| leave any marks on that nice computer.
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http://ryanorser.com/?p=744
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