Microsoft smart tags: support, ignore or condemn them? Gareth V. Hughes and Les Carr   View Paper (PDF)   Return to Links Abstract This paper describes the latest instantiation of the open hypermedia concept of the generic link as it appears in Microsoft Office products - the Smart Tag. We review the background to generic linking and the technology involved in Smart Tags and discuss the reaction to this application in the computing press. Recommendations are made on how the system design could be improved for our purposes. DiSC'03 © 2003 Association for Computing Machinery