Microsoft releases updater to address "privacy concerns"

The Microsoft Office 98 Unique Identifier Updater "addresses privacy concerns regarding the insertion of a unique identifier number in Office 98 documents [see previous MacFixIt item]. Once applied, the patch prevents Office 98 applications from inserting a unique identifier number into Office documents." [A note on Version Tracker says that Netscape users having trouble downloading this file should use this link. The other solution is to replace the spaces in the URL with " ".]