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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Mod Insightful? What the... by Logiksan · 2006-10-09 07:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

How exactly does a nitpick on a singluar typo that's completely out of the scope of the OP get modded "Insightful?" The link is still valid, there's no clarification neccessary.

We should have preliminary competence exams before you qualify for mod points. =P
Re:Thank God by TheoMurpse · 2006-10-09 08:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I've been looking forward to that whole tabbed-browsing thing they invented
Hey guys, so I'm writing this post from jail. Yesterday was my grandmother's birthday, and I was having a chat with my uncle. We were talking about web browsers, and he said that he preferred IE over FF because, and I quote, "It's just more powerful than Firefox." So I killed him, which brings me back to why I'm writing from jail :(