Exploring hooks in MSIE

[Roy M. Silvernail]

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In list.cypherpunks, Dietrich_Kappe at redweb.com writes:

> A little bird told me that MSIE has Javascript hooks that allow a site
> to check whether all Microsoft products on a client machine are properly
> licensed. Has anyone investigated the Javascript (err, Jscript)
> implementation in MSIE to see if this is true?
>
> The same little bird told me that MS is building some use of this
> "feature" into their Websites. Can any MS consultants corroborate on
> this issue?

I might have some insight on this after Thursday's afternoon outing to
the Microsoft Web Builder Workshop.  (for those who haven't heard, MSoft
is offering a half-day seminar with major swag... for $89, you walk out
with NT 4.0 server, J++, FrontPage and every instantiation of MSIE)  I
expect to learn some interesting stuff.
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           Roy M. Silvernail     [ ]      roy at scytale.com
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