I remember the recent discussion on this and just caught this in the
lastest Risks Digest.
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 09:18:41 -0700
From: "NewsScan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Microsoft pulls controversial Smart-Tag feature (Re: RISKS-21.46)
Bowing to a wave of criticism, Microsoft says it will kill plans to include
a Smart Tag feature in its forthcoming Windows XP operating system. The
feature would have allowed Internet Explorer to turn any word on any Web
site into a link to Microsoft's own sites and services, or to a site of
Microsoft's choosing. The company continues to defend Smart Tags in
principle, and plans to work toward including it in a future version of
Windows or Internet Explorer, but group VP Jim Allchin said the decision was
made to remove the Smart Tags because "we got way more feedback than we ever
expected." Although many people view the public reaction against Smart Tags
as excessive, Wall Street Journal columnist Walter Mossberg says,
"...Microsoft's dominant Internet Explorer browser is like a television set,
or a digital printing press, for the Web. Its function is to render --
accurately and neutrally -- all Web pages that follow standard
programming... Microsoft has a perfect right to produce and sell its own Web
content with its own points of view. But it is just plain wrong for the
company to use the browser to seize editorial control and to steal readers
from other sites." [*Wall Street Journal*, 28 Jun 2001
http://interactive.wsj.com/archive/retrieve.cgi?id=SB993679289461737795.djm
(sub req'd); NewsScan Daily, 28 June 2001]
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