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[scottobear]

I don't understand why everyone's up in arms about Microsoft removing support for older Netscape-style plugins from the latest upgrade to Internet Explorer. Yes, it's annoying, I'll grant you that; now, I have to download QuickTime movies in order to watch them. But strangely, other plugins haven't been broken (like RealPlayer and Acrobat, at least on my machine), so I'm finding it hard to blame Microsoft, rather than Apple, for this one. And has anyone ever demanded that Netscape add support for ActiveX components? Once again, it smells like hatred, rather than logic, is driving this outrage.

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Microsoft is trying to cover all their bases with the whole antitrust blah blah yadda yadda. They removed Netscape plugin-type extensions in the latest IE5.5 (and IE6) builds. Apple is working on a fix right now.. And the next version of IE (6.x) won't come with Java. You'll have to find a runtime for IE seperately. Don't know how familiar you are with that.. but Sun licensed Java to Microsoft.. and Sun said Microsoft violated the license when they modified parts of Java/added on to it. So Microsoft played their card... they said.. fine, no more java in IE! So now Sun is scrambling to put together a runtime for IE. Sun sucks.