Comment Re:Supposedly? (Score 1) 609
I do not doubt that the security update blocked some viruses, but the implementation was needlessly disruptive to other applications:
- It did not identify the application, so the user is left to infer who is accessing his address book.
- It did not allow the user to consent for more than 10 minutes at a time
- It did not allow the user to designate certain applications as permitted to access his address book
- There was no way for users to uninstall it once they realized that it killed an app they needed
So yes, this was a "security" measure, but implemented in a way that maximized the destructive effect on applications that Microsoft happens to compete with. These "features" have remained unchanged in Office XP.
- It did not identify the application, so the user is left to infer who is accessing his address book.
- It did not allow the user to consent for more than 10 minutes at a time
- It did not allow the user to designate certain applications as permitted to access his address book
- There was no way for users to uninstall it once they realized that it killed an app they needed
So yes, this was a "security" measure, but implemented in a way that maximized the destructive effect on applications that Microsoft happens to compete with. These "features" have remained unchanged in Office XP.
