I Suppose This Is “Innovation(tm)”

After insisting for months that Internet Explorer wasn’t going to be updated until the release of Longhorn, the next version of Windows, in 2005, they’ve now backtracked and announced a new Service Pack, slated for the first half of next year, that will add pop-up blocking to the browser.

Wow, pop-up blocking built right into your Web browser! What a great idea — and not a moment too soon. After all, it’s not like you could just download a fast, free browser with built-in pop-up blocking from anywhere else…