OK. Will you settle for this? -- Microsoft prohibits any browser other than IE from updating Visual Studio. To me you are making a distinction without a difference.

This really isn't worth pursuing, is it? I know you have a pro-Microsoft tilt, but why shouldn't you? Microsoft and its products have been good to you. Me, too. I just don't like it when they abuse their monopoly power. This is why I prefer to use competing products, other things being more or less equal.


>Browsing to a web site is entirely different than Windows prohibiting a competing browser from working.
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>>LOL @ "open sores"
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>>Well, maybe it's because Microsoft has done this kind of thing before. For example, you can't update VS.NET with any browser other than IE.