New Windows Updates
Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 01 March 2006 - 16:18 · 21 comments & 6733 views
KB904942 - Install this update to resolve HTTP authentication issues in Windows-based systems that do not appear until Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 is installed.
 
 
Update for Internet Explorer for Windows KB912945 - This update includes minor changes to how Internet Explorer handles some web pages that use Microsoft ActiveX controls. Please see the Overview section of this page for more information.
 


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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by xorian on 01 Mar 2006 - 16:26
Minor updates ..
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by DoS on 01 Mar 2006 - 16:27
Wrong

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,19323...3119TX1K0000594

"Microsoft has shipped a new version of its Internet Explorer browser to permanently change the way multimedia content is rendered on Web pages."

Wouldn't call it minor
Quote this comment #2.1 Posted by Sekerob on 01 Mar 2006 - 19:36
Somewhere it is implied by MS that the change affects a number of plug-in providers to IE too as co-violators. Actually the change requirement is driven by the fact that MS lost a patent dispute to Eolas who got 0.5 billion awarded for patent infringement. Facts straight, IE is the violator.....all plug-in providers were using features in ActiveX that were infringing on patent unbeknownst to them. MS does not want to pay past or future, thus makes a change to ActiveX forcing many bolt on application and web-page writers to make changes.....without the update to IE/ActiveX the pages and plug-ins continue to work, so why update: To accommodate MS.....personally, I think the industry should force MS to come to a settlement with EOLAS, so that no global changes to many hundreds of thousands of pages and application (if not millions) are required.....now MS is defraying cost onto the industry.....the Industry/Internet community should protest vehemently and send the bill to Bill. Also too, i have my reservations about the business ethics of MS who holds many software patents and making money out of them.....
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by dhan on 01 Mar 2006 - 16:30
wouldn't update on this :p
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by cork1958 on 01 Mar 2006 - 16:34
Is anybody/everybody getting this patch?
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by _Dom_ on 01 Mar 2006 - 16:38
this to do with the calefornia uni lawsuit i guess
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by TRC on 01 Mar 2006 - 16:51
Sounds like more of an annoyance than anything, I think I'll pass.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #7 Posted by denzilla on 01 Mar 2006 - 17:13
MS Should've just Licensed the technology from eolas to avoid the complication.
Quote this comment #7.1 Posted by excalpius on 01 Mar 2006 - 18:53
It wasn't an eolas "technology". I believe it is the result of one of those huckster/specious pseudo-patent claims. This is MS's way of just bypassing the issue, which I agree with. Apparently, website creators can change the link slightly to return normal functionality.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #8 Posted by shao on 01 Mar 2006 - 17:14
wonder if KB904942 fixes the problems i was getting with the group policy management console, with ie7 beta installed. not sure i can be bothered to reinstall it again to find out though. :-S
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #9 Posted by jren207 on 01 Mar 2006 - 18:34
After updating, it seems that when I mouseover and flash animations, (like ads for example), there is a strange border around them and you have to click it once in order to click anything on the animation...

The tooltip says "Click to activate and use this control"
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #10 Posted by thagame on 01 Mar 2006 - 18:37
everyone bitched that activex was autorun and messed up computers. now they fix that and everyone bitches again. theres no pleasing anti ms kiddies
Quote this comment #10.1 Posted by Fubar on 01 Mar 2006 - 18:54
could be that they are just bitching about activex in general you never know
Quote this comment #10.2 Posted by Kushan on 02 Mar 2006 - 15:25
ActiveX autorunning isn't the problem, it's the way ActiveX works in general that is.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #11 Posted by rIaHc3 on 01 Mar 2006 - 18:53
Question; Does this also go thru Windows Update?
Quote this comment #11.1 Posted by sphbecker on 02 Mar 2006 - 22:36
They are on Windows Update but are flagged as Optional, so they will not install automaticly if you have Automatic Updates turned on.
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #12 Posted by CoLdFuSi0n on 02 Mar 2006 - 01:42
also with this update it ( if you goto windows update ) it installs a new version of WGA, this so you can't disable the addon in IE to bypass the check.
Quote this comment #12.1 Posted by j0j081 on 02 Mar 2006 - 03:02
I thought they fixed that a while ago somehow.
Quote this comment #12.2 Posted by Xerxes on 02 Mar 2006 - 03:40
Yeah, they fixed that ages ago ...mind you there are other ways to get around it, if you know where to look
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #13 Posted by kaiwai on 02 Mar 2006 - 04:46
Hmm, interesting, been a while since I last updated (last week sometime), and it appears they've already released a new WGA Validation Tool
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #14 Posted by Z3r0 on 02 Mar 2006 - 08:35
Update for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (KB912024)
Download size: 534 KB , less than 1 minute
Install this update to receive the latest infrared receiver support for keyboards and remotes for Media Center Edition 2005. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. Details...

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=912024
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