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06/28/2001 Archived Entry: "Microsoft Drops Controversial Tagging Feature from Windows XP"

Microsoft Drops Controversial Tagging Feature from Windows XP


Facing severe criticism and a potential public relations debacle, Microsoft is pulling one of the features from Windows XP. The planned inclusion of "Smart Tags" in both the new operating system due Oct. 25 and in the upcoming browser Internet Explorer 6 has been indefinitely postponed.


The decision by Windows Group Vice President Jim Allchin follows a furor after the feature surfaced for the first time in a beta version of the operating system earlier this month. The decision is such a hasty about-face that the feature will still appear in the pre-release version of the new OS, due out next week. There wasn't time to excise the necessary code from that release.

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