Re: Blackboard and IE Patch

[Bill Betlej <bbetlej () MBC EDU>]

Gary,
        Do mean Eolas? Are you suggesting this is all some big conspiracy
episode in the browser wars between Firefox and MS IE? <grin>
Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Flynn [mailto:flynngn () JMU EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 10:36 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Blackboard and IE Patch

Cal Frye wrote:

> We've gone ahead with the patch, but this is the first I've heard of an
issue
> with Blackboard (those folks are in another department ;-)
>
> Microsoft has somewhat bungled this one, but I still regard Blackboard's
failure
> to play nice with the patched IE a failure on their part -- Microsoft
patches
> are a feature of the landscape, and our network is where the patches need
to be
> applied as soon as released, even earlier if possible, as seen in recent
months.
> Perhaps they should code to be less reliant on Internet Explorer, hm?

Microsoft changed the way core functionality works. The only blame I can
place on vendors is not heeding Microsoft's warnings months ago.

 From what I understand, the same functionality change could be required
of other vendors' browsers if they don't pay licensing fees to Ebola.