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FUD - Applets

Fear Uncertainty Doubt. This article and the response neglects the fundamental change afforded through products like VMware and development using Java. Rather than spread FUD, why do we not educate ourselves and the masses to virtualization and IPhones and Access Providers and Java Applets. Well I guess this is the opportunity

One possible reason for the lack of education is continued wrong doing by Microsoft and their partners. Case in point, if you have a new implementation of Internet Explorer, the security is set in a manner making it difficult to down load the Fire Fox browser. The plausible denial to the notion that illegal monopoly power is being used against a competitor by this fact is security.

It gets even worse. The IE browser rejects completely many web sites where the html isn't to its liking. Rather than displaying at least the text, the browser implies that an attempt to view pornography is involved and displays nothing. Save the Children!

If you are at a hotel or library or school where the network administrator has locked down the computer you are out of luck - unless the FireFox browser has also been loaded, which often it has. Or you have an iPhone. Thank the rational!

Java Applets likewise are hindered with unprofessional and incorrect by my way of thinking security warnings in the IE browser. (Would Microsoft please pay the 800 million to UC Berkelely and free the Applets in IE? Please.) The plausible denial to illegal use of monopoly power involving that is again security.

FUD should be avoided. Home computers can be protected by using a responsible access provider such as AOL which provides items in the response to this article or - and this is preferable - Vmware should be used so that if there is a problem the virtual copy can be used to eliminate those problems.

Not all problems are malicious in nature.

Microsoft automatic updates seem to cause me problems every other week. Hence I turn that off when I can. AOL does the same of course. VmWare solves even the problems associated with software updates that are not meant to be malicious.

My point is that it is not just terrorist action involving web pages that has to be addressed. It is also the necessary and correct maintenance for keeping things up to date.

You can outsource that maintenance via hardware and something like iPhone. Or you outsource that maintenance via the Access Provider. Or you can use VMware - which best I can tell is the future solution to many problems including the long standing problem of users loading personal software to business computers and breaking things owing to that.

Developers of course can get over their Applet hate. Applets run inside a sandbox and hence are of very high security. But here again the illegal use of monopoly power was shown by Judge Jackson to be at work.

I was encouraged yesterday when Microsoft used the hated Applet word with its developers. Applets are the way of iPhone, of security, of multi-processor multi-core, of software maintenance, and they have long been the correct way because of that. But Applets (Java) threatened the core technology of Microsoft according to Jackson and the Microsoft lawyers and their public relation firms used FUD to dissuade developers from promoting them. We need to work to turn that around.


Frank L. Mighetto CCP

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