The company is reported to have decided against implementing changes to IE following last year’s court ruling in the Eolas Technologies Inc dispute.
Eolas holds a patent on web page plug ins, but that patent is now undergoing re-examination by the US Patent Office and could be withdrawn.
The company cited feedback from business customers and partners. Microsoft will, meanwhile, release an IE patch that allows internet scam artists to collect users’ personal details, a practice called phishing.
The patch will end IE’s ability to accept URLs that hide a web site address using the ‘@’ character.
This article is based on material originally published by ComputerWire
