OT: So much for Microsoft's slap on the wrist, regarding IE and OS bundling .....

[Hechler Family]

Basically, this boils down to the fact that MS is going to ignore the 
DOJ and go ahead and bundle Internet Explorer WITH the Operating System 
(ie, XP and later)

And, if you are on older versions of Windows, you are going to get the 
shaft - again.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[DISCUSS] IE6 SP1 Will Be Last Standalone Version
Date: 	Sat, 31 May 2003 23:13:41 -0500
From: 	Scott Granneman <scott@granneman.com>
Reply-To: 	discuss@sluug.org
To: 	stlwebdev@stlwebdev.org
CC: 	discuss@sluug.org



>From Slashdot: "Program manager Brian Countryman stated that "as part of the 
OS, IE will continue to evolve, but there will be no future standalone 
installations. IE6 SP1 is the final standalone installation." See the 
Microsoft TechNet article. 
[http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/itcommunity/chats/trans/ie/ie0507.asp]" 
Several of the people submitting this story have come up with elaborate 
theories about why: killing competition, etc. etc. I think the truth is just 
that Microsoft intends to integrate DRM very tightly with their OS and 
browser, and they're aren't going to try to backport that to, say, Win98, so 
they just aren't going to release new versions of their browser for old, 
DRM-less operating systems. In the future server-side browser detection may 
be more about detecting whether the browser supports the DRM your "web 
service" uses than what version of Javascript or CSS the browser supports."

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/1650206

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The tightening of the screws continue. This is unbelievably bad for Web 
developers, Web users, and the Internet in general. 

Scott
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