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Microsoft will push IE7 with Automatic Updates
by David Chartier Jul 26th 2006 at 5:25PM
I was considering prefacing this post with 'recipe for disaster', but I didn't want the food and cooking news aggregators to pick it up by mistake. Microsoft Watch is reporting that the Redmond giant is planning to use their Automatic Updates service to push IE 7 out to Windows users Of course, Windows users will still need to pass the WGA test, whether they grab this 4-years-coming update to Internet Explorer, whether they grab it through Automatic Updates or download it from Microsoft's site.
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phizm said 8:33PM on 7-26-2006
I think it's a good thing. Not that i use IE, but it might finally help people rid themselves of the horrible 4&5.x versions.
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derrick said 9:07AM on 7-27-2006
I can see how this could be a big problem in some companies. For example, where I work there aren't a lot of people that even understand basic computer operation so if their browser changed even in the slightest due to an automatic update it'd be chaos.
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Gardiner Westbound said 9:54AM on 7-27-2006
Means nothing to me. I turned automatic updates off a while back.
Your best bet with Microsoft software is to stick with the version you have. A new version's minor improvements are outweighed by problems that will require countless fixes to resolve
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