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1. Comment - Adobe to Sue Microsoft for PDF Feature?

   (Jun 2, 2006 - 3:03 PM)

   Sounds like Microosft is including a third-party file format in its own software, not third-party software.
   
   It's a similar situation to including its own web browser -- in both cases third-party alternatives are being specifically targetted and squeezed out.

2. Comment - Google Cries Foul Over IE7 Search Box

   (May 3, 2006 - 10:34 AM)

   They may be good at patching, and that is responsible behavior after the fact, but it would be a lot better if Microsoft were better at doing up-front design work in the first place so the clouds of post-release patches weren't necessary.
   
   Windows is a complex architecture by design, but it doesn't have to be that way.

3. Comment - Microsoft Disputes WMF Backdoor Claim

   (Jan 16, 2006 - 11:51 AM)

   It's quite easy to create a reusable code library in assembler -- one doesn't have to use a high level language in order to follow good development practices.
   
   Also, most modern assemblers are macro-assemblers, allowing one to create reusable high-level contructs (code macros or PROCs or whatever) to simplify much of the dirty work while retaining the high level of control present in an assembler language.
   
   Don't assume that all assembly programmers are still living in the stone ages. Things have come a long way over the past 40 years...