Re: OT: Are Microsoft really at it again!

2011-01-13 Thread Bill Vlahos
Yeah its a tough choice. I was astounded the other day when I was talking with a co-worker about him giving me a tab delimited text export and he went on and on about how he loved CSV. Bonkers! Bill Vlahos _ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important

Re: OT: Are Microsoft really at it again!

2011-01-13 Thread Douglas
On 14/01/2011 00:25, Jeff Massung wrote: Honestly, I just think that's silly. When I start up OS X for the first time it doesn't ask me if I'd like to use Opera, Chrome, or FF instead of Safari. I agree, and also find it annoying that Apple are allowed to bundle Safari without a similar notific

Re: OT: Are Microsoft really at it again!

2011-01-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Actually, I don't think it does require IE. You can have updates download and install automatically, or you can use the command line tool wuauclt. The switch you want is /detectnow. There is no /installnow though. Odd huh? Instead there is a script someone wrote that will force Windows Update Se

Re: OT: Are Microsoft really at it again!

2011-01-13 Thread Jeff Massung
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Douglas wrote: > Remember when Microsoft lost their European court cases about unfair > business practices etc.? > > One of the conditions of being allowed to continue to supply Internet > Explorer in boxed Windows 7 packs in the EU. was that they would add a > "B

Re: OT: Are Microsoft really at it again!

2011-01-13 Thread David C.
> I'm not sure which should die first:  the CSV file format, or all > non-standard implementations in IE.  Man, that would be a tough choice... Let's all hope it's the CSV format! ...where do we vote? Best regards, David C. ___ use-livecode mailing lis

Re: OT: Are Microsoft really at it again!

2011-01-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
It's been like that for a long time. I had to download Firefox for Windows from a Mac or other PC that already had Firefox and then copy the installer to the Explorer only desktop. I have no doubts in my own mind about this. Bob On Jan 13, 2011, at 3:29 PM, Douglas wrote: > Remember when Mic

Re: OT: Are Microsoft really at it again!

2011-01-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Douglas wrote: Remember when Microsoft lost their European court cases about unfair business practices etc.? One of the conditions of being allowed to continue to supply Internet Explorer in boxed Windows 7 packs in the EU. was that they would add a "Browser Choice" page that would allow the us

Re: OT: Are Microsoft really at it again!

2011-01-13 Thread Calvin Waterbury
Justices directives aside, Microsoft will *not* do anything to help the other guys, so if some little omission or other "mistake" slips by their QC folks... oh well. Fair winds, Calvin Douglas

Re: OT: Are Microsoft really at it again!

2011-01-13 Thread Dave Cragg
On 13 Jan 2011, at 23:29, Douglas wrote: > How many people think that this is an unfortunate "mistake" on Microsoft's > part? 27 Cheers Dave :-) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscr

OT: Are Microsoft really at it again!

2011-01-13 Thread Douglas
Remember when Microsoft lost their European court cases about unfair business practices etc.? One of the conditions of being allowed to continue to supply Internet Explorer in boxed Windows 7 packs in the EU. was that they would add a "Browser Choice" page that would allow the user to choose a