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..6 months for a patch = Spagetti Code...

That was the exception, not the rule.
Of course windows is spaghetti code.
Re-engineering that would be next to not worth doing.
I presume that Longhorn is better but how much of the kernel is legacy?

..Remove their crappy Registry and ActiveX...

While ActiveX is used by the virus writers, it's also at the heart of all windows apps, MS and ISV.
Removing it isn't an option.
But you knew that.

Out of interest, how do apps on BSD leverage objects from other apps or the OS?

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here's an idea for security...  ryusen | 03/31/04
Don't forget to..  FreeBSD | 03/31/04
Don't forget to..  seosamh_z | 03/31/04
fyi  michael-t | 03/31/04
fyi  seosamh_z | 03/31/04
what?  V Sanders | 03/31/04
your exception is not alone...  ryusen | 03/31/04
Don't expect much "innovation" until DOJ times out  oldskool | 03/31/04
here's an idea for security...  seosamh_z | 03/31/04
This is fairly easy to do now.  jfrankcarr | 03/31/04
but...  ryusen | 03/31/04
One step I did leave out  jfrankcarr | 03/31/04
"evolving threat models"  FreeBSD | 03/31/04
"evolving threat models"  seosamh_z | 03/31/04
Password protect software installation  Chad_z | 03/31/04
Password protect software installation  seosamh_z | 03/31/04
Perhaps you missed the first 50 years of computing?  oldskool | 03/31/04
Perhaps you missed the first 50 years of computing?  seosamh_z | 03/31/04
I hear you talking  bjbrock | 03/31/04
Oh, really!!  Don Bradley | 03/31/04
are you suggesting that Microsoft lied, and that they can remove these apps  hipparchus | 03/31/04
Not my claim  Don Bradley | 03/31/04
I love my windows as much as the next  V Sanders | 03/31/04
You either don't understand or are ducking issues  oldskool | 03/31/04
No Truth Stretching at all  Don Bradley | 03/31/04
Listen up, OS technology predates MS, that's where they copied it from  oldskool | 03/31/04
Listen up, OS technology predates MS, that's where they copied it from  seosamh_z | 04/01/04
OS Core Functions  gas_z | 04/01/04
I think some of you are not getting this right.  Heatlesssun | 03/31/04
you can either trust the user  V Sanders | 03/31/04
MS does weld stuff into the OS to avoid remedies  oldskool | 03/31/04
Where are you getting this stuff?  Don Bradley | 03/31/04
Not in the kernel ... yet? or Never?  oldskool | 03/31/04
Not in the kernel ... yet? or Never?  seosamh_z | 04/01/04
At last! We have some numbers to show (after three years ....)  michael-t | 03/31/04
Your grade is still an "F" Billy  Chad_z | 03/31/04
MS's attempts to controll user choice is the problem  oldskool | 03/31/04
Some clown released the memo a day early..  Xunil_Sierutuf | 03/31/04
Smells like more DRM on the way...  Zogg | 04/01/04
SP2 addresses all of this  Enterprise Analyst | 04/01/04

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