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In finally getting rid of ctfmon.exe, I discovered this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=823586
I quote:
"After you install Office and then you turn on speech recognition and
handwriting recognition, these features become part of the operating system.
You cannot remove these features, even with the Maintenance Mode of Office
Setup."
Is this a built-in OS feature, not related to Office 2003, which just gets
turned on as necessary? If not (in my very inexperienced assessment), I
would think it could be considered illegal because other, non-MS
applications don't have the luxury of permanently becoming part of Windows.
Such low-level integration could be construed as an anticompetitive
advantage.
Please fill me in if any of you are familiar with the legal stuff.
Bob
In finally getting rid of ctfmon.exe, I discovered this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=823586
I quote:
"After you install Office and then you turn on speech recognition and
handwriting recognition, these features become part of the operating system.
You cannot remove these features, even with the Maintenance Mode of Office
Setup."
Is this a built-in OS feature, not related to Office 2003, which just gets
turned on as necessary? If not (in my very inexperienced assessment), I
would think it could be considered illegal because other, non-MS
applications don't have the luxury of permanently becoming part of Windows.
Such low-level integration could be construed as an anticompetitive
advantage.
Please fill me in if any of you are familiar with the legal stuff.
Bob