IE7 To Ship With Windows Patches Tomorrow [Not]

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 9, 2006 @05:31AM from the ready-or-not dept.

An anonymous reader writes, "Microsoft plans to push out Internet Explorer 7 as a 'high priority update' when it ships security patches tomorrow, according to Washingtonpost.com's Security Fix blog. That means anyone who has Windows configured to download and install patches automagically from Redmond will be greeted with IE7 next time they boot up their machines. In related news, it appears IE's worldwide market share actually increased a couple of points since July, despite a number of high profile zero-day attacks this year." The article notes that the IE7 "containment wall" protected mode will not be available on XP, but only to those who purchase Vista.

Update: 10/09 21:26 GMT by kd : An anonymous reader points to this Microsoft blog posting where it is revealed that the article linked above is incorrect. IE7 will not be pushed tomorrow.

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Re:Good or bad news for the web developers? by xENoLocO · 2006-10-09 05:49 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Perhaps you misunderstood.

It's a pain to have multiple instances. Not impossible. I've been testing in IE7 for months, but thanks for your feeble attempt at being a smartass. Much love. :)

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Firefox the memory hog by DrDitto · 2006-10-09 06:34 · Score: 1, Flamebait

This morning I loaded Firefox 1.5.something on my Windows XP laptop, entered cnn.com for news. 10 minutes later Firefox was chewing up 65MB of memory and causing my laptop to drag.

I'm thrilled to get tabs on a browser that doesn't have a memory leak.