Microsoft pushes IE 7 installation
Microsoft has announced that it will automatically push Internet Explorer 7 to Windows XP users when the browser update is ready later this year. It willits Automatic Updates service to do this. However, people will be able to choose whether they want to install it or not.
After notifying users that IE 7 is ready to download, this welcome screen presents some key IE 7 features and the choices to install, not install or postpone installation.
Personally I’m not looking forward to this. I installed ie7 on one of my systems and lost use of Internet Explorer on that machine. It does nothing but crash. Strange as it seems… it’s been more stable as a rendering engine… ie using it via ietab in Firefox. So finding that ebven though they hadn’t fixed my crashing issues from Beta 22 to beta 3… they are planning to roll it out come fall. Well I find that humorous. I think that they are desperate not to lose too much to Firefox.
For Businesses this may be good news… Developers bad news and Corporations… News they won’t do anything about till the beginning of the year.
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