PatchLink Warns on IE Patch

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via C|Net.

[snip]

An Internet Explorer update released earlier this week can interfere with some applications, including Google's 
Toolbar, according to PatchLink, a maker of patch management software.

Other applications affected by the Web browser patch include business software from Oracle's Siebel customer 
relationship management unit and certain Web applications that use specific versions of Java, PatchLink said Friday.

The problems arise because of changes Microsoft made to how the Web browser handles Web programs called ActiveX 
controls. The modifications are designed to shield Microsoft from liability in a high-profile patent dispute with Eolas 
Technologies and the University of California.

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More:
http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-6061597.html

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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