Much Ado about Smart Tags – Microsoft softwares are mostly good. Really. Word, Excel, and most of all IE took the whole of their market share for good reasons. God, it was such a relief the day I abandonned Netscape 4.7…

But now, MS is really crossing the borders. Smart Tags are the new « user-empowering » feature from IE 6 / Office XP. Actually, it’s mostly a tool for big corporations to edit anybody’s website content in whatever direction they think appropriate. Read this A List Apart article for more details : « It’s not Microsoft’s job to expose users to content while they’re on our sites. It’s our job as authors, designers and developers. »

Webloggers, personal sites owners, non-corporate-web amateurs, we should get wary now.

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