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IE Changes Due: What You Can Expect

Monty Solomon (monty@roscom.com)
Fri, 14 Apr 2006 15:37:54 -0400

IE Changes Due: What You Can Expect

Microsoft will release a security update for Internet Explorer that
will also change how users interact with Web sites.

By Gregg Keizer, TechWeb.com
April 11, 2006

Microsoft Corp. will release Tuesday a security update for Internet
Explorer that will also change how users interact with Web sites.

Some sites that rely on popular ActiveX controls, such as Apple's
QuickTime, RealNetworks' RealPlayer, and Adobe's Flash and Acrobat,
are likely to give users fits.

The change, which Microsoft has been warning Web site developers about
since December 2005, was made to abide by a ruling in a patent
infringement lawsuit Microsoft lost in 2003 to the University of
California and its startup, Eolas Technologies Inc.

With the changes rolled out in a mandatory security fix, any IE user
who downloads and installs Tuesday's security patches -- either
manually or via an automated system such as Microsoft Update -- will
likely need to modify how they use those sites which haven't been
rewritten.

What should users expect?

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=185300378

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