@the 'whiner' babies

@AC "Will these whiners never be happy? " & @Toastan Buttar "they still won't stop whining. Twats."

-- Any old excuse to bash the EU, eh! :rolleyes:

The simple facts are that MS *does* have a distribution advantage, and IE is (was?) tightly linked to the OS.

The way to solve this _isn't_ to remove IE entirely leaving users without a browser (and the suggestion is a huge dick move on MS's part). To solve it fairly they need to:

a) decouple IE from the OS so it can be removed entirely without side-effects

b) distribute Windows with a few browser builds, allowing users to select IE / FireFox / Opera, etc. as and when they want.

Paris, because blonde and dumb

Read before you leap

@ Mark "Am I going to get phone call to ask me to turn on the machine and leave it attached to the internet? Firewall and anti-virus off preferably?""

... I think a lot of you are reading into this completely the wrong way.

This is for hard disks that have ALREADY been confiscated, and are sitting in boxes in evidence rooms. Instead of filing paperwork and getting these shipped around to offices as needed, they could be plugged in on-site and accessed securely over VPN etc, making the job more efficient.

Surely you'd want the time it takes to search drives to go down -- catching criminals quicker and for innocent people, getting their hardware back sooner?

As for the implementation, they could probably image the contents of each disk and store it on a single server per site, and have a properly audited system that'll prevent 'wrong disk' scenarios occuring, etc.