<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:56 AM, L.D. Paniak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com">ldpaniak@fourpisolutions.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Chris Bruner wrote:<br>
> Oksana Goertzen wrote:<br>
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>> Microsoft Update Slips In a Firefox Extension<br>
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>> <a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F02%2F01%2F2143218&from=rss" target="_blank">http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F02%2F01%2F2143218&from=rss</a><br>
>> <<a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F02%2F01%2F2143218&from=rss" target="_blank">http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F02%2F01%2F2143218&from=rss</a>><br>
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>> Is anyone else alarmed by this??!<br>
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>> - Oksana<br>
> I believe the update happens when you are updating Visual Studio, and<br>
> probably because MS uses a web browser to access it's help info. If you<br>
> are developing with VS, then you need to expect MS to be "helping" you.<br>
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</div>I think it's great. Another example of MS alienating conscientious<br>
computer users. Keep up the good work!<br>
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It can only lead more people to get their 'help' from ubuntu...<br>
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</blockquote><div><br>It is great in other ways too. They acknowledge that even on Windows a significant<br>number of people use FireFox day to day and not the default MS IE. Therefore they<br>had to up with this stealth technique to allow them to upgrade Windows from FireFox.<br>
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