InternetNews.com - Microsoft Scraps Smart Tags Plan (Jun. 28/01)
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Microsoft Scraps Smart Tags Plan
By Internetnews.com Staff June 28, 2001
Following weeks of outraged criticism, Microsoft Corp. Thursday
backed away from plans to include the Smart Tags feature in Windows XP's Internet
Explorer 6.
The Smart Tags feature would allow IE 6 to turn any word on a
Web site into a link at Microsoft's discretion. That link, without the Web site
author's knowledge or consent, could lead to a Microsoft site or, conceivably,
the site of a Microsoft partner or even an advertiser.
Critics said the feature gives Microsoft too much leverage over
how users interact with Web pages.
The company reportedly will keep the Smart Tags feature in Office
XP.
The final version of Windows XP is due to ship in October.
