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  • From: john AT radiomind.com (John Beimler)
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Microsoft dropping smart tags
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:53:13 -0400


Take a look here: http://smarttags.manilasites.com/

especially the discussions, if you use Apache as your web server,
here are the instructions:

http://smarttags.manilasites.com/discuss/msgReader$9

regards

john


On 0, Saundra Kae Rubel <saundrakae AT saundrakaerubel.com> wrote:
> Beth
>
> I am not a member of the Red Hat group, only the smart tags
> yahoogroups. Can you point me to specific URLS or post the workarounds to
> the Internetworkers list so others can prepare for the assimilation when it
> occurs?
>
> Thanks
>
> Saundra
>
> At 08:33 AM 6/28/2001 -0400, Beth Ellison wrote:
> >A follow-up story this morning included this:
> >
> >``We hadn't balanced the legitimate concerns of the content providers with
> >the benefits we think Smart Tags can bring to users,'' the
> >article quoted Jim Allchin, Microsoft group vice president in charge of
> >Windows and the Web browser, as saying.
> >
> >http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010628/n2856331_2.html
> >
> >Hell, if they had seen the thread that was going around Red Hat yesterday,
> >they would've realized that 1) there are ways of disabling Smart Tags and
> >2) we all hate them like we never have before for even considering using
> >them.
> >
> >Beth
> >
> >
> >
> >>From: Thomas Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com>
> >>Reply-To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> >>To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> >>Subject: [internetworkers] Re: Microsoft dropping smart tags
> >>Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 08:15:13 -0400
> >>
> >>Calvin Powers wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Looks like Microsoft is backing down.....
> >>
> >>""At this time we just don't believe it's going to be ready when
> >>(Windows XP) ships in October," Microsoft spokesman Jim Cullinan said
> >>late Wednesday. "External feedback" was one of the factors that led the
> >>company to remove the feature, although he indicated it could be
> >>resurrected in later versions."
> >>
> >>"Cullinan also emphasized that Smart Tags remain a feature of Office XP,
> >>the upgrade to Microsoft?s suite of applications that launched on May
> >>31."
> >>
> >> So which is it? The code isn't ready (although it's already in
> >> use in
> >>Office XP) or they're backing down because of public pressure? Betcha a
> >>quarter the code'll be there and they'll trot it out in a year or so
> >>with the first "upgrade" or service pack.
> >>
> >>TaB
> >>
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