[veriSign?]

Marcio Marchini mqm at magma.ca
Tue Aug 21 23:09:06 UTC 2001


	This may be related to your problem

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http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010816.html

[...]

The test of this theory is, of course, Microsoft abandoning EMBED.

Then, on August 10th, came a note from Apple engineering staff to the
QuickTime VR mailing list saying that "IE 5.5 SP2 [for Windows] will not use
the QuickTime plug-in no matter what you do. Microsoft has disabled all
'Netscape style' plug-ins, there is nothing you can do. Look for information
from us about how work around this problem in the near future."

Goodbye EMBED.

Of course, this has a delightful outcome for Microsoft. They are able to
abandon Java and blame it on Eolas. It puts even more oomph behind
Microsoft's move to .NET. And as an extra bonus, Apple's QuickTime (and
RealPlayer, too!) gets nuked in favor of Microsoft's next-gen Media Player.

Sun and Eolas gave Microsoft lemons, so Microsoft is making lemonade. Now
where in any of this is the part about serving customers? It isn't there.


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marcio

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of
> G.J.Tielemans at dinkel.utwente.nl
> Sent: August 21, 2001 6:22 PM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: [veriSign?]
>
>
> Coincedence or not: after installing this update for Microsoft IE
> 5.5/Windows98 my Squeak-plugin is broken and I cannot repair it.
> (it is not the server-side: from other plces it works fine.)  Are there
> other IE5.5/98 users having this problem? (or even better a solution?)
> .++++++++++++++
> Security Update, April 2, 2001
> 124 KB/ Download Time: < 1 min This update resolves the "Erroneous
> VeriSign-Issued Digital Certificates Pose Spoofing Hazard" security
> vulnerability, and is discussed in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-017.
> Download now to prevent an unauthorized user from running code on your
> computer by digitally signing programs as "Microsoft Corporation".
>
>
>
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