Exploring hooks in MSIE

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?

This is just a rumor. The names of the birds have been changed to
protect the innocent.

DJK

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In list.cypherpunks, Dietrich_Kappe@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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