Microsoft: Eolas Changes Won't be in XPSP2
News.com is reporting that Microsoft has made a statement saying that it will hold off on Eolas-related Internet Explorer modifications until after the appeals process is over. Microsoft is currently awaiting the results of a Patent Office review of the Eolas patent, based upon several possibilities of prior art.
"The action by the patent office may result in the cancellation of the Eolas patent," according to the Microsoft statement. "Given these circumstances, and after consulting industry colleagues and developers, Microsoft, for now, will not be releasing an update to Internet Explorer and does not plan on making the changes it announced in October to Windows XP Service Pack 2."
It will be interesting to see how all this plays out. They already have the changes in the SP2 code that I'm running... I feel bad for the guy that has to go back and comment that all out.