Re: EU is on the loose.

I'd rather say: MS should be split up into the OS division and the
application division. Then the OS division should be required to
publically provide meaningfull documentation about ALL APIs and the
app. developpers can/must use it. So none of them would get any
information advantage over others.

It's slightly changing the topic of the thread I know, but I don't buy
that line about 'secret APIs', for more than one reason. Firstly, MS
Office (say) has always used far less of the API than it might have -
it has often (always?) used its own toolbar implementation, for
instance. And secondly, things like the internal shell stuff dating
from Win95 that finally got documented on MSDN a few years back is
*horribly* hacky - the fact that it was intended to be internal code is
obvious. Quite frankly, I don't want non-MS programs to use that
stuff, not for the least because it means MS will feel the need to keep
supporting it in new versions of Windows.
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