On: How Apple Cheats

[frik]

The Windows system control, Explorer UI, Internet Explorer UI, Office UI all use undocumented APIs since Win98/2k and Office 95.

It's called Windows "DirectUser" UI and it's in violation of the antitrust settlement.

sources:

* http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/02/10/52952...

* http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsdesktop/en-US...

  Internet Explorer's use of DUSER.DLL is only temporary. 
  The final version of Internet Explorer will not use it.
  -- Raymond Chen [author of "The Old New Thing"]

* yet, IE 7+ uses DirectUser UI: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2006/02/01/a-new-look-for...