Humm... my email address appears to have been edited again :-) On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Simon Byrnand wrote:
Uh,
Just try to explain to joe public internet user why they must suddenly apply a patch to restore the functionality of their search button, which has - for no apparent reason - stopped working and started giving cryptic error messages. Can you say unnecessary techsupport headaches ?
No, its a Microsoft error, they disabled a website (or it broke) which is needed for part of the Search functionality of their browser...expecting end users to fix it is a bit rich :)
The kind of end user that is going to be able to fix the problem themselves is most likely smart enough to use better alternatives like google anyway :)
I don't disagree with you there -- I just thought it might be useful to provide your customers with an easy fix rather than wait for one from Microsoft that may or may not appear. The details are in the IEAK otherwise. -- Juha Saarinen