ΕΕ, windows, IE, ubuntu,

[Christos Ricudis]

, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:

> Μπορεί κάποιος να μου εξηγήσει γιατί τα windows που παρείχαν τον browser
> τους μαζί με το λειτουργικό μπήκαν στο στόχαστρο της ευρωπαϊκής
> επιτροπής ανταγωνισμού, ενώ άλλα λειτουργικά που εγκαθίστανται μαζί με
> το browser τους (OSX - safari, ubuntu - firefox) όχι; Μήπως γιατί στα
> windows o IE δεν μπορούσε να απεγκατασταθεί;


Na apegkatasta8ei mporei, estw kai an den einai trivial.

To epixeirhma einai oti me to na bazeis by default ena browser sta 
windows, ousiastika erxesai se pleonekthma apenanti ston antagwnismo.

Ayto to epixeirhma bebaia apo mono tou einai hli8io, giati akribws to 
idio mporw na pw oti isxyei gia opoiodhpote component tou systhmatos 
exei enallaktikes epiloges. Logou xarh, nomizw oti ta windows exoun 
kapoio built-in malware scanner. Mporei poly omorfa ayrio h McAfee na 
pei oti kati tetoio th fernei se dysxerh 8esh sto na prow8hsei ton diko 
ths. Me8ayrio kapoios 8a pei oti de mporei na poylhsei ton media player 
tou epeidh ta windows exoun ton diko tous, kai paei legontas.

*isws* to epixeirhma na mporei na ginei ligo isxyrotero ean dextoume oti 
h Microsoft *xrhsimopoiei* to pleonekthma ths enswmatwshs tou browser 
wste na prow8hsei kleista protypa pou den mporoun na anaparagoun eykola 
alloi (silverlight?)

Oson afora to poso "kommati" tou leitourgikou systhmatos einai o IE, 
prepei na exeis kanei arketo development se windows kai se unix gia na 
mporeseis na synhdeitopoihseis poso megalh diafora yparxei sth logikh 
twn APIs twn dyo systhmatwn.

Deite gia paradeigma to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_API kai 
sygkrinete me ta antistoixa services pou parexei to POSIX (giati apo kei 
kai pera, to xaos). Texnologies opws COM, DCOM, OLE sta windows, 
epitrepoun ena eidos dialeitourgikothtas metaksy components efarmogwn 
pou den synh8izetai sto unix world, enw einai ka8hmerinothta sto windows 
application development.

Estw loipon oti egw se mia efarmogh mou, 8elw na kanw parse ena XML 
document. 8a xrhsimopoihsw to MSXML API, nai h oxi? Kai ean h MS 8ewrei 
oti to MSXML API einai tmhma tou Internet Explorer, an o xrhsths exei 
apegkatasthsei ton IE gia na balei sth 8esh tou ton Mozilla, o Mozilla 
8a prepei na parexei ena symbato API gia na einai symbatos me thn 
efarmogh mou, h oxi?

Kai paei legontas. To zhthma einai POLY pio periploko apo oso fainetai 
epifaneiaka, kai h Microsoft den exei kai to apolyto adiko[1] pou 
feretai opws feretai...


[1] h pio eygenikh diatypwsh pou mporw na xrhsimopoihsw se mia linux 
mailing list.