[thelist] Stop Word, Excel, PDF loading into browser

"Czechowski, Aaron" wrote:
> 
>         Not that I'm defending the folks in Redmond for this, but AFAIK,
> since IE is now becoming more and more part of the OS and less and less a
> stand-alone web browser, it's pulling the file type from the OS as defined
> in the registry, which is based upon file extension.  The MIME type is part
> of it, but ultimately it's the extension that defines the file in the
> Windows world.  So unless Microsoft pulls IE apart from Windows, we're stuck
> with how Windows deals with the files and not the browser....

Quick rant....

Microsoft should never have tied the type of document to its extension in the first
place. And we have disasters like long files name support in Win98 and WinNT now?
This is where the MAC excelled. We are still stuck with the FAT16 legacy crap instead
of a real file system. sheesh.

rant over....for now.
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