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Er.. Actually...Fred had it right...
Reread the first paragraph - the one in BOLD type at the top of the page. It reads:

"Microsoft plans to add pop-up blocking features to Internet Explorer next year as part of its Service Pack 2 update for Windows XP, a move that would go far toward stamping out the Web advertisements. "

Note the "Service Pack 2 update for Windows XP" part...

Now, that doesn't mean they CAN'T or WON'T make the update available in a more general IE 6 service pack somewhere down the line. Then again, it may have some code that relys on somethign else that's only found in XP.

In the mean time, Fred should chill out. If he did a Google search for "Popup Stopper", he would have found about 91,700 links to pages for pop-up stoppers - and gee.. MANY of them are freeware solutions! Many of these solutions also stop OTHER types of pop-ups from taking over the computer - MS Messenger, AOL, Yahoo, etc..
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Still will be very careful sp2  cybershoplifter | 11/10/03
Ya mean  Fred Fredrickson | 11/10/03
if your apple statement...  doh123 | 11/10/03
Yes it was...  Fred Fredrickson | 11/10/03
Solution  dcarrera | 11/10/03
They said IE SP2, Fred!  Bill Weisgerber | 11/11/03
Er.. Actually...Fred had it right...  Wolfie2K3 | 11/11/03
Re: er &etc  none none | 11/11/03
No further replies to this post will be accepted.  none none | 11/11/03
Now THAT'S Innovation!  bidemytime | 11/10/03
Re: Now THAT'S Innovation!  dcarrera | 11/10/03
Here here (off topic)  Fred Fredrickson | 11/10/03
You can't please everyone, Fred!  Bill Weisgerber | 11/11/03
Site not to standards -- poor professionalism  zen_dogen | 11/11/03
Re: Your post  Enton Eller | 11/11/03
Re: Now THAT'S Innovation!  Hard Cider | 11/10/03
RE: Re: Now THAT'S Innovation!  nrlz | 11/10/03
HTML?  Enton Eller | 11/11/03
Grrrrr How did you get the HTML to work??  Enton Eller | 11/11/03
can' win can they  lmaxwell | 11/10/03
Oh goody  vdraken | 11/10/03
It is more like MS is feeling the heat  jjon2121 | 11/10/03
something really funny  Joe_Bob | 11/10/03
Re: Oh goody  dcarrera | 11/10/03
Innovation my ...  schmitt249 | 11/10/03
FOR THE RECORD  bidemytime | 11/11/03
Dare I say it...  Fred Fredrickson | 11/10/03
Huh?  Jomo_z | 11/10/03
Don't think so  altereqo | 11/10/03
Dare! Dare to say it!  AbsolutelyNot | 11/10/03
Just as bad or worse  DarthRidiculous | 11/10/03
expanding ads only work on IE  doh123 | 11/10/03
Works on others  dscherf | 11/10/03
Re: expanding ads only work on IE  dcarrera | 11/10/03
I haven't seen an ad or popup in ages  Mr_Shifty | 11/11/03
What the?  Mr_Shifty | 11/11/03
Talk to the hand because ZDNet sure isn't listening. (NT)  none none | 11/11/03
Try Mozilla  poocow666 | 11/10/03
Using Firebird 0.7  richardanstett | 11/10/03
Using 1.5  nikoli | 11/10/03
Mozilla market share  dcarrera | 11/10/03
One more thing...  dcarrera | 11/10/03
Mozilla & Netscape 7.1 already do this now  mbratch | 11/10/03
wohoo  lmaxwell | 11/10/03
That's very ironic, don't you think maxi?  Spoon Jabber | 11/11/03
I let Google block on IE  FilledOut | 11/11/03
How it should be implemented  Robert Carnegie | 11/11/03
That and a Download Manager Too  nucrash | 11/11/03
Sites that use pop-ups legitimately may suffer  doctormoriarty | 11/11/03
No no no  lacjoe@... | 11/11/03
It was a figure of speech  doctormoriarty | 11/11/03
...actually  spydrlink@... | 11/12/03
Again Microsoft follows the leader...  Tammee | 11/11/03
Duh! Opera did this 2 versions back  Sales@... | 11/11/03
We already have the most effective blocker out there...  BitTwiddler | 11/11/03
Which popups?  jasonp@... | 11/11/03
Censoring  jskline0@... | 11/12/03
In addition to pop ups...  spydrlink@... | 11/12/03
bb  Enton Eller | 11/23/03
re  Enton Eller | 11/23/03
਼  none none | 11/23/03
਼  none none | 11/23/03
gg  none none | 11/23/03

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