IE, IE, IE Affects PTC SW

Microsoft loses a court case; software supporters suffer.

With Microsoft losing a law suit over technology used by its Internet Explorer Web browser, other software companies are having to issue patches. (Is their programming time compensated by Microsoft?)

PTC notes that This issue affects all releases of Windchill and Windchill-based solutions, including Windchill PDMLink, Windchill ProjectLink, Windchill Foundation & PDM, Windchill DynamicDesignLink, and Pro/INTRALINK 8.0 and higher; ProductView clients may also be affected. Some of the problems include:

- Loading the Java plug-in from an updated Microsoft browser may cause it to exit prematurely.
- Launching ProductView Standard Edition plug-in from an updated browser may cause it to become unresponsive.

For more info, check this Web page [ptc.com].

Comments

[Robert Lipman]

Another problem that this latest Windows security update causes is to break the Cosmo Player VRML plugin in Internet Explorer. There doesn't seem to be a workaround and none is expected since Cosmo Player hasn't been developed in years.

Other VRML plugins still work in Internet Explorer.

Cosmo Player does work in Firefox.

VRML Plugin Detector