Back on the 9th November I mentioned that Microsoft had struck a deal with EOLAS, licensing their software so that they could remove the pesky "Click to activate" from ActiveX controls such as those used when embedding video clips. The actual patch to remove this will be released in April 2008, but a preview of this patch was released sometime yesterday. This patch affects the following versions:
- Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP SP2
- Internet Explorer 6 for Windows Server 2003 SP1
- Internet Explorer 6 for Windows Server 2003 SP1, Itanium-based versions
- Internet Explorer 6 for Windows Server 2003, x64-based versions
- Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
- Internet Explorer 6 for Windows Server 2003 SP2
- Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP SP2
- Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Server 2003 SP1
- Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Server 2003 SP2
- Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Vista
The question is though, is this still needed? To combat the issue originally more Flash players for videos were used as they didn't need activating.
On a side note, I saw an amusing signiture yesterday - it said about viewing a website that said "requires Internet Explorer 5.5 or better", so they installed Mozilla. Excellent.
Link: IE ACA Update Preview
