Re: About That “inetpub” Folder ...

On Sat, 6/14/2025 7:16 AM, Daniel70 wrote:

On 14/06/2025 7:02 pm, Paul wrote:
 
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Preemptive multitasking allows a lot more rubbish to load.
Why, the OS even runs the programs I write :-/ You know,
some commercial AV tools, they would gun down my EXE files
and not allow them to run ("reputation" detection, never
seen the hash before).
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And Microsoft is aware of these issues, as they are writing
out third party drivers (Ring0). They are working on improving
the walls of their cardboard fortress in Ring0.

 
So would this put them in the same boat as Apple?? Nothing would get onto a Win System without MS approving it??

You can see some kind of "intent", in the usage of smartphone apps.

They have a strategic direction to "copy Apples success". But that
does not mean slavishly copying tiny details. Microsoft does
not have a "reality distortion field" and are not likely to get
one any time soon.

It's a bit like trying to bake a pie, when you have no pie filling.
It sorta looks like a pie, but... not quite.

You can see the attempt to escape who they are, in the
shipping of Windows-S. You won't find too many people who voluntarily
run computing equipment that way. Only in Enterprise, might you
attempt that (locked-down environment).

While the Microsoft Store is better than it used to be, I don't look
forward to entering search terms in the interface, because I'll be
shoveling through things I don't want to see. The store used to be
"200,000 copies of Flappy Birds", but they've stopped trying
to overload the eyeballs with 29 color presentations with
no way to distinguish between them. As a user, you know that
underneath that less-cluttered facade, those Birds are
hiding in there... somewhere :-)

If they ever dump Win32, *then* they're in deep trouble. That's why
I have a dual-boot computer.

   Paul