Andy Edinborough

A recent article at Slashdot that has now been propagated to TechRepublic, claims that Firefox's biggest vulernability this year is Microsoft.  For those who have not heard, as part of the .NET Framework v3.5 SP1, Microsoft added an extension to Firefox to support Click-Once application deployment.  The claim by Slashdot is that this is Internet Explorer's biggest vulernability and that Microsoft has forced it onto Firefox users.

Having done extensive development in the area, Click-Once deployment does not give the “ability for websites to easily and quietly install software on your PC”.  Click-Once must always be initiated by the user, always displays a dialog, and always requires the user to agree to install the software.  Microsoft didn’t do anything that Firefox doesn’t allow or encourage.  Click-Once is actually very similar to Firefox’s own method for downloading and installing Extensions.

The interesting thing is that the article claims this is… Read More →

As my first post on my new blog, I'm pleased to say that Microsoft has finally released Bing, a "decision engine" that offers Google real competition.  But did they seriously just release a search-engine product with no Search Provider add-in for Internet Explorer?  Seriously?  This is a huge disappointment; I actually really like Bing.

Ironically, I was able to add Bing as my default search provider to Chrome, and Firefox very easily, but my only option for IE was to set it as my homepage.  I don't want to change my homepage.  I just want to set it as my default search provider...  I could write my own, but I've got to honest, I'm lazy and that sounds like a lot of work.

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I received a tweet back from @bing saying that they're working on it.  I'm sure they want to do something fancy, but something that works… Read More →