{"id":461,"date":"2009-10-15T10:48:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T10:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/?p=461"},"modified":"2010-05-28T16:01:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T16:01:52","slug":"the-sad-sad-tale-of-xps-standalone-address-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2009\/10\/the-sad-sad-tale-of-xps-standalone-address-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sad, Sad Tale of XP&#039;s Standalone Address Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The removal of the address-bar-on-taskbar for XP SP3 was a right pain. Where previously I&#039;d enjoy keeping an address bar down there for easy URL input or even using it as a temporary clipboard for jotting down a phone number, after SP3 a third-party application is required. This is reportedly due to the ongoing anti-trust debacle between Microsoft and the EU, who are happily trying to prevent Microsoft from integrating Internet Explorer with bloody everything.<\/p>\n<p>Thing is, what does the address bar have to do with it? Ignore for a moment that the well-intentioned EU case led merely to the release of a stripped-down Windows E that nobody bought and thus was hardly successful, but the address bar itself had not much to do with IE. If one&#039;s default browser is Firefox and an URL is entered onto this address bar, Firefox is brought up.<\/p>\n<p>I&#039;m told that Microsoft fancied being safe rather than sorry, assuming that no-one really used the feature anyway and hoping to avoid any ambiguity on it by simply removing it altogether. But I have to wonder if the intention here was really to generate an international ream of &#034;this EU case has crippled my workflow!&#034; and thus get people on Microsoft&#039;s side over the entire thing. I have to admit, until you realise that at no stage did the courts order the corporate giant to strip out this useful feature, my first reaction was one of &#034;well perhaps it&#039;s going a bit too far after all&#8230;&#034;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I explore the removal of the Start Menu-docked Address Bar from Windows XP as of SP3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}