MSXML4 is going to be kill bit-ed

dpblogs — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:39:00 GMT

Our XML team announced this morning that, as a part of our MSXML4 End of Life plan, we will kill bit MSXML4 in the October – December timeframe of 2007. The kill Bit applies to Internet Explorer only, after which, applications will not be able to create MSXML4 objects in the browser.

We are announcing this in advance so our customers have sufficient time to test applications with MSXML6 and provide us with feedback. Please email msxml4@microsoft.com with feedback, questions or concerns.

For more information, you can check out the post here.

Best practices with MSXML on the browser

alexbarn — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 22:34:00 GMT

Adam Wiener, Lead Program Manager for Data Programmability / XML Technologies, has worked closely with the IE team in the lead up to the IE7 release. As part of that process, Adam looked at the use of XML in the browser and concluded:

"During this investigation one thing has become immediately obvious – there is a lot of confusion around the versioning story for MSXML and how to instantiate the “right” MSXML object in the browser.

In this post, Adam has provided details on best practices for use of MSXML in the browser and written up a short history of the different versions of MSXML, where they ship, and its long term strategy.

Data : MSXML

MSXML4 is going to be kill bit-ed

Best practices with MSXML on the browser