This is Scarey to me Vista Security Discuss This is Scarey to me in the Windows Vista forums; Microsoft to launch test build of Internet Explorer refresh in December. Following its August settlement of a long-standing patent dispute with Eolas, Microsoft is readying a refresh of its ...

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Microsoft to launch test build of Internet Explorer refresh in December.

Following its August settlement of a long-standing patent dispute with Eolas, Microsoft is readying a refresh of its Internet Explorer (IE) browser that will remove an interim “Click to Activate” control setting.

It also will be built into the next “pre-release” versions of Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 and Windows XP SP3, Microsoft officials said, via a posting on November 8 to the IE Team Blog.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=920

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That is quite unusual....im scared too why do we need a whole new build?

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I have the idea, that the NEW version like a couple of other versions, will not be compatible with certain version of Windows OS...
another way to either get a newer OS or get out. Like here in the USA, many ISP's have removed support for many older OS's from there system.
hence win 95 and win 98,SE,ME will not be able to logon.... many of the older routers will not allow access to the Internet with Vista SP1...
It is so very easy to write a little extra code that says, NO ACCESS allowed to v.x. I have seen this in Mirc's and many other programs.. it is $$$$$ and that is all.
That is like if you insert a AOL disk, and have auto run working... YOUR SCREWED AND TATOOED. it rewrites so much stuff, and there program(s) are auto set to DEFAULT. just like NetZero and several others....

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Microsoft to Remove Eolas Barrier in IE
By Ed Oswald, BetaNews
November 8, 2007, 4:13 PM
Microsoft has begun advising customers on planned changes to IE now that it has licensed technology from Eolas, however it may have accidentally let slip a release window for VIsta SP1 and XP SP3 to boot.

UPDATED The Redmond company said Thursday that it will release an update in April 2008 as part of its regular cumulative update for Internet Explorer that month. Microsoft will make the functionality available via a preview release in December.


"We are simply reverting to the old behavior," senior product manager Pete LePage said. "Once Internet Explorer is updated, all pages that currently require 'click to activate' will no longer require the control to be activated. They'll just work."

In order to appease Eolas, Microsoft made a change to Internet Explorer in March 2006 that prevented ActiveX controls from loading automatically. The functionality changed affected many popular programs that could be embedded into web pages.

However, in August, the two sides made up which likely resulted in a large sum of cash being paid to Eolas, and now appears to have also included some type of licensing arrangement.
This arrangement would uncripple ActiveX as a way to load content within web pages, and is surely good news for developers.

As well as letting users know of the change, LePage also may have let slip the release date of both service packs for Vista and XP. While the service pack for Vista had been expected for the first quarter of 2008, XP Service Pack 3 had been thought to be much further away.

LePage said that these both will be made part of the next pre-release versions of both patches, leading some to believe that the final releases of both could be much closer than previously thought.

However, in an e-mail to BetaNews following the initial publication of this story, LePage denied any connection to the timing of either service pack.

http://www.betanews.com/article/Micr..._IE/1194556382