[thelist] Smart Tags are dead. At least for now.

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If anyone else mentioned this, I missed it.

http://www.cnn.com/2001/BUSINESS/06/28/microsoft.smart/

"June 28, 2001 Posted: 1107 GMT



NEW YORK (CNNfn) -- Microsoft has abandoned the controversial "Smart Tags"
feature it was packaging in its new Windows XP operating system following
criticism that the function was a cloaked attempt by the software maker to
forcibly lure new subscribers to its Web-based services, a published report
said Thursday.

Company officials said Smart Tags won't appear in the final version of
Windows XP due out Oct. 25, or in its new version of its Internet Explorer 6
Web browser, the Wall Street Journal reported

[ . . . ]

Microsoft said it defends the Smart Tags idea in principle, and that it
plans to include the feature in a future release of Windows or its browser,
in a more acceptable form, the report said."

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