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Ah, thank you that does make much more sense. I certainly don't envy Microsoft's legacy commitments.

Wait, am I to understand that IE used to allow installation and execution of arbitrary binaries? From the web!? How did any one ever think that this was a good idea?

Whoooooosh

That makes soo much more sense now. I thought "(" was supposed to be a smiley.

You mean, previlege?

Doesn't matter, the MS Windows software ecosystem nearly entirely consists of x86 binaries. Linux software for the most part is open source. A transition to a new instruction set would only make sense if MS Windows was a superior OS by itself. The things that keep people on Windows will not exist on ARM.

Not necessarily. While some of the tests rely on javascript, others don't. In my case both my user agent and HTTP_ACCEPT Headers are unique. Now I am far from a typical user, what with Ubuntu, nightly firefox builds, and japanese enabled. A more typical user, say Win7 and latest stable Firefox would of course be much more common. So yes, noscript is very helpful, but YMMV.

Thank you. You've elaborated my thoughts perfectly which does make me feel a bit better.

I disagree.