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Sure, but is this unique to Windows or Word? and there are various ways Microsoft could kill bit this driver if it was widely exploited with no support from the
by meandmycode 4y ago
Sure, but is this unique to Windows or Word? and there are various ways Microsoft could kill bit this driver if it was widely exploited with no support from the company that made it
- gw99 4y agoWord is a useful vector because a lot of hardening software throws a load of stuff on the Windows UI to stop you executing anything but does not touch VBA. I've had to use VBA many times to work around abhorrent user controls that prevented work from being done.
- trelane 4y agoWindows does hardware support primarily though proprietary drivers specific to that hardware. Outside of that, its own innate hardware support is quite lackluster compared to other OSes (especially Linux, due to the pressure to put drivers in the kernel, where they're open and maintained.) Sure, they can unilaterally kill any software on their platform, it's perhaps an important thing to note about it and other platforms where this is true. (Answering questions of ownership and user rights that inherently arise from this and other similar facts are left as an exercise to the reader). However, that also comes at the cost of disabling the hardware that the driver serves, at least until it's fixed.