SP-3: You will lose the Address Bar toolbar in the Windows taskbar

[Guest VanguardLH]

According to the TechNet posting at

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2589449&SiteID=17,

Microsoft had to eliminate the Address Bar toolbar (available in

pre-SP3) from the Windows taskbar due to legal reasons. I read the

release notes at

http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/d/8/cd8cc719-7d5a-40d3-a802-e4057aa8c631/relnotes.htm.

There is no mention of this legal requirement to remove the Address

Bar toolbar from the Windows taskbar. The claim in the thread is that

the Address Bar had to be removed to eliminate integration of IE in

the desktop. Huh? The address bar relies on the protocol handler.

It parses the string and tries to determine which protocol is best

suited to handle the string. If you enter a folder and file path (or

use file://) then you get Windows Explorer, not Internet Explorer.

 

I think it is a bogus claim. If you select a different web browser as

your default, doesn't entering a URL string into the Address Bar open

*that* web browser and not IE? How is the Address Bar in the Windows

taskbar any different than the Address Bar in Windows Explorer?

[Guest SAM-R]

Re: You will lose the Address Bar toolbar in the Windows taskbar

 

Re: You will lose the Address Bar toolbar in the Windows taskbar

 

This has been known for a long time and is old news.

 

"VanguardLH" <V@nguard.LH> wrote in message

news:frn3ir$jvr$1@registered.motzarella.org...

> According to the TechNet posting at

> http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2589449&SiteID=17,

> Microsoft had to eliminate the Address Bar toolbar (available in pre-SP3)

> from the Windows taskbar due to legal reasons.

[Guest -Phil Clemence]

Re: You will lose the Address Bar toolbar in the Windows taskbar

 

Re: You will lose the Address Bar toolbar in the Windows taskbar

 

 

"SAM-R" <SAM-R@news.postalias> wrote in message

news:efxfCSLiIHA.1944@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

> This has been known for a long time and is old news.

>

Oh , that explains it

 

> "VanguardLH" <V@nguard.LH> wrote in message

> news:frn3ir$jvr$1@registered.motzarella.org...

>> According to the TechNet posting at

>> http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2589449&SiteID=17,

>> Microsoft had to eliminate the Address Bar toolbar (available in

>> pre-SP3) from the Windows taskbar due to legal reasons.

>

>

[Guest VanguardLH]

Re: You will lose the Address Bar toolbar in the Windows taskbar

 

Re: You will lose the Address Bar toolbar in the Windows taskbar

 

"SAM-R" wrote in message news:efxfCSLiIHA.1944@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

> This has been known for a long time and is old news.

>

> "VanguardLH" <V@nguard.LH> wrote in message

> news:frn3ir$jvr$1@registered.motzarella.org...

>> According to the TechNet posting at

>> http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2589449&SiteID=17,

>> Microsoft had to eliminate the Address Bar toolbar (available in

>> pre-SP3) from the Windows taskbar due to legal reasons.

 

 

I was mostly interested in finding where Microsoft claims to have

divulged this information in the release notes. I looked at the

release notes. In the latest downloadable version of SP-3 and the

link on that page to the release notes, there is NO mention of losing

this functionality. Can't Microsoft figure out how to retain

information in their release notes between subsequent candidate

releases?

 

For many developers, the release notes tells them what is different

and that information may not be documented anywhere else. That this

functionality loss is NOT mentioned in the release notes bodes that

other such functionality loss or change is also not documented in the

release notes.

 

If a service pack changes behavior or deletes/adds functionality then

it should be documented! The indication is that this functionality

loss was mentioned before but got left out in the current version of

the release notes. For developers that are forward-looking to prepare

for this service pack, they can't wait until the release notes get

corrected and made up to date when the service pack is actually

released. That is, saying that the release notes will be correct when

SP-3 is released is not adequate.

 

Yes, I know programmers make lousy documenters. That may be the

reason for crappy release notes, not an excuse.