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["Beth Ellison" <leonardbernst55 AT hotmail.com>]

Or rather, they would've realized that people are sharing info 
about/creating new ways to disable Smart Tags with reckless abandon. I 
didn't mean to imply that Microsoft didn't know it could be done.

early. pardon.

Beth


> From: "Beth Ellison" <leonardbernst55 AT hotmail.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 08:33:34 -0400
>
> 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 Microsoft¹s 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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