4991597 changed Windows text components to use the proper gray background when non-editable. However, this seems contrary to what people have come to expect. Many people use non-editable text areas like this to show multi-line content, and the new gray background looks bad.

I will actually argue that what we do now for these areas is wrong.
- If I create a new .NET project and add a non-editable RichText control, the bg is white.
- Windows Help uses a non-editable area that has a white bg.
- In IE, use menu item Help->About and you'll see a non-editable area with white bg.

Finally consider how this affects the NetBeans output window. It was white and is now gray.

As such, all "areas" (ie. multi-line) text components should go back to the white bg.