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Re:It's OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when Micros... by sp332 on Friday May 11, 2012 @02:59PM (#3960747)
That would make sense except that they specifically exempt their own browser from the restrictions that will apply to every other browser.
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Re:It's OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when Micros... by contextfree on Friday May 11, 2012 @04:35PM (#3961253)
No, it makes sense (not that it's necessarily the main or only reason) - it's much easier to break APIs when the only clients are internal.
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Re:It's OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when Micros... by wvenable on Friday May 11, 2012 @03:30PM (#3960911)
The problem is that third party applications can cause security and performance issues and it's Microsoft who ultimately takes the blame for it. They exempt their own browser because it's their own browser.
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Re:It's OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when Micros... by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday May 11, 2012 @04:06PM (#3961100)
I'd say it's more an exemption for their own rendering engine. IE10 is more than just a "browser" in Windows 8, it is the engine used to execute several Windows 8 applications.
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Re:It's OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when Micros... by contextfree on Friday May 11, 2012 @09:33PM (#3962299)
It's an exemption for whatever is preinstalled on the device :) The actual technical mechanism behind this "ban" is simply that installing desktop apps in general is blocked on Windows RT. A "Metro style enabled desktop browser" (what Metro style IE and Metro style Firefox are) is really just a desktop executable that acts like a Metro style app.
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