Filed under: Internet, OS Updates, Windows, Microsoft
Microsoft helps block Internet Explorer 7 update
by Jordan Running Jul 27th 2006
Yesterday David reported that Microsoft will be pushing Internet Explorer 7 to all Windows XP users via Automatic Update in Q4 of this year. He also reported that Microsoft will "provide corporations with the ability to optionally block or postpone the automatic download and installation of IE 7." In case you're wondering how, here's your answer: Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 7 Blocker Toolkit, an official tool that will prevent Automatic Update from delievering IE7. The target market for this is system administrators whose essential browser-based apps might break in the new browser, but that doesn't stop the individual IE-haters and ultra-paranoid from using it, too.[Thanks, Abdul!]
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
