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What is Microsoft doing about the restriction to Internet security zones?

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What is Microsoft doing about the restriction to Internet security zones?

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When you’re running client code in Silverlight, by default we restrict that code from accessing your file system or doing anything that could hurt your machine. For Internet-based apps, that’s critical. You don’t want to visit a site and have it access your documents without your permission. So, with Silverlight 3, both our in-browser and out-of-the-browser models both support a sandbox mode like that. But let’s say I do want to have local file system access, because it’s a sales app inside the firewall. With Silverlight we allow you now to open files locally, but it still requires user permission. One of the things we’re looking at for future releases is an option, especially for enterprise apps, that allows an administrator to grant permissions. Is that something that’s in the works at Microsoft now? The truth is, people who want to use Silverlight for enterprise full-trust apps still represent a relatively small portion of the market. It’s something that we haven’t built yet, but it

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