Reply to post: Re: Lawsuit Time Again

Microsoft thought of the children and decided to ban some browsers

Richard Jones 1
WTF?

Re: Lawsuit Time Again

Perhaps I am reading this all wrong, (rather than holding it all wrong). I am certainly feeling no desire to get rabid or hysterical.

MS, (whatever you think of them) provided a facility to users, (parental controls) which allowed the USER to try to profile THEIR machine account(s) to meet certain of their user needs. MS found that certain add-ons broke the profile and allowed actions that the USER might have expected to have blocked. So MS took steps to stop this bypass on those machines and accounts that had the parental controls switched on.

Can someone explain how this is not right?

MS are NOT saying you cannot use your browser of choice. They are saying that if the user wants a certain facility to work more closely as they expected, then MS have tried to align the performance with the user expectations.

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