> the kernel team has to hack around it like they do for other popular misbehaving apps. Like Google Chrome? Or is that not a popular app? If you think the Of

> the kernel team has to hack around it like they do for other popular misbehaving apps. Like Google Chrome? Or is that not a popular app? If you think the Office team doesn’t have access to the source code of the rest of Windows and doesn’t get special apis to do things you aren’t supposed to do, you’re in for a surprise. Where do you think that crazy crypto code Chrome uses to set itself as the default browser comes from? It’s obviously decompiled code from a Microsoft app that sets itself as the default. Because they have privileged access and can do the things they prevent others from doing. And exactly the same goes for Office. Little tricks to set the defaults, to allow their windows to pop up when others are blocked from doing so, privileged access to the update system, preinstallation with the OS, the list goes on and on. They are superficially separate teams for legal reasons.