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Thursday, June 28, 2001

what's hot what's not

According to this C-Net News article, Microsoft will not be including Smart Tags in the shipping Version of Windows XP.

"The impression I had was there was a major disagreement at Microsoft about whether to pull Smart Tags or not," said LeTocq said, who emphasized the company has merely backed off using the technology but has not abandoned it. Smart Tags could reappear in Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6 in a different form "people could live with" within six months, he added.

Microsoft drops Smart Tags from Windows XP
read here - go there

I do not believe this nor am I holding my breath here, as Microsoft has a track record of never removing 'features', but instead patching which just adds more code to an already large program.

There is still the issue of the My Images 'feature'.

A screen shot of IE6 and the My Images popup for images

Easy image theft and re-distribution from Microsoft.

State Farm Insurance has released a survey of the 10 most dangerous Intersections in the country. I live three miles from one of them. I live ten miles from another.

A US Supreme Court Decision has decided that copyright rests with the author and not the publisher. The New York Times has decided to just delete these troublesome articles.

Honeysuckle

There is a new technology that threatens the web. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.0

The quest for control of presentation by designers has taken many turns. From the first graphic browsers in 1994^[1] to the sophisticated tools for creating webpages and managing content available today , designers have used the web to display the fruits of their labors.

Previously June 24, 2001