Comments on: Internet Explorer 7 find http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2006/03/31/internet-explorer-7-find/ The journal of Paul M. Watson Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:36:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta1 hourly 1 By: Brian Delahunty http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2006/03/31/internet-explorer-7-find/comment-page-1/#comment-15124 Brian Delahunty Mon, 03 Apr 2006 15:20:00 +0000 http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2006/03/31/internet-explorer-7-find/#comment-15124 It could be that I have this confused with some other feature of IE. Anyway, from what I can remember about a post I read on this it is because that feature is actually patented by someone and MS is not willing to take the risk that they will be sued to high heavens for putting patented stuff on 300,000,000+ machines. I guess the Eolas thing is still reverberating around in MS.<br><br>However, maybe I'm not remembering correctly and it had nothing to do with this. It could be that I have this confused with some other feature of IE. Anyway, from what I can remember about a post I read on this it is because that feature is actually patented by someone and MS is not willing to take the risk that they will be sued to high heavens for putting patented stuff on 300,000,000+ machines. I guess the Eolas thing is still reverberating around in MS.

However, maybe I’m not remembering correctly and it had nothing to do with this.

]]> By: Brian Delahunty http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2006/03/31/internet-explorer-7-find/comment-page-1/#comment-702 Brian Delahunty Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:20:00 +0000 http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2006/03/31/internet-explorer-7-find/#comment-702 It could be that I have this confused with some other feature of IE. Anyway, from what I can remember about a post I read on this it is because that feature is actually patented by someone and MS is not willing to take the risk that they will be sued to high heavens for putting patented stuff on 300,000,000+ machines. I guess the Eolas thing is still reverberating around in MS. However, maybe I'm not remembering correctly and it had nothing to do with this. It could be that I have this confused with some other feature of IE. Anyway, from what I can remember about a post I read on this it is because that feature is actually patented by someone and MS is not willing to take the risk that they will be sued to high heavens for putting patented stuff on 300,000,000+ machines. I guess the Eolas thing is still reverberating around in MS.

However, maybe I’m not remembering correctly and it had nothing to do with this.

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