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IE7 Released As High-Priority Update

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the meet-the-new-boss dept.

jimbojw writes, "Internet Explorer 7 was finally released this morning and is available via automatic update or download from Microsoft." And an anonymous reader notes stats on IE7 and FF2 downloads, adding: "Looks like FF2 is already outnumbering FF 1.5, while IE7 is having a hard time to find followers. Will today's release as a high-priority, force-fed update fix this issue?" The sans.org stats site will be updated throughout the day, so perhaps we'll get an indication.

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  1. Had this on my home comp by mapkinase · · Score: 2, Informative

    Installed smoothly, reassigned without giving a choice file types to IE, e.g. xml's

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  2. Re:WGA by Apocalypse111 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Look up a little utility called muBlinder. It doesn't work right now, as MS updated their WGA software just a few days ago, but give it a couple days and you can pretty much download whatever you want/need.

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  3. Re:Hello chaos by Mr.Sharpy · · Score: 2, Informative

    For corporate environments (using Active Directory), Microsoft released a set of tools and information you can use to block the installation of IE7 from Windows Update. This information was made widely available to administrators of Microsoft networks. If you were (too late now) anticipating problems with the update, your domain administrator(s) should have use the IE7 blocker toolkit.

    More blocker toolkit info here

  4. Re:Market share by ivan256 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Now more than ever the browser is an application platform. Microsoft has had the vast majority of the market share in that department leading to a practically guaranteed torrent of revenue. If non-microsoft browsers gain enough market share, application developers will tend towards adding support for the new platform. That would force Microsoft to spend more money on development in order to stay competitive (no more 5 year release schedule). That would lead to a significant drop in Microsoft's profit margins.

  5. Re:Firefox fans, get a clue! by jsight · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mozilla has not yet pushed 2.0 out via auto-update, and even when they do, it will ask permission.

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