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No, just laziness

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 02, 2004 09:34 PM
It's easier for programmers who aren't very familiar with windows to do something like

Run("C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe", "http://hotmail.com");

than it is for them to go to the registry to get the location of the default browser and run<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/it/. This is just an instance where Microsoft QA failed to notice that a program didn't respect the default browser setting in Windows.

Of course, it's possible that this was intentional, as Microsoft might have the idea that their Hotmail interface has some REALLY NEAT features only available in IE that users MUST HAVE and would want even if they CHANGED their default browser, but let's not ascribe to malice what can

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