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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. Force "feeding"... by garcia · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Will today's release as a high-priority, force-fed update fix this issue?

    Yes of course it will. Why would the majority of Windows users go out and manually download a web browser? For most of them IE works just fine. When IE7 comes in they will just consider it another one of Windows quirks and happily chug along with it.

  2. IE7 *should* be adopted. sooner the better. by taybin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I *want* people to upgrade to IE7. I don't care if they're using IE7 or Firefox. I just want to be able to write sane CSS.

  3. Hello chaos by pilkul · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In my company we have at least two programs whose functionality is broken when IE7 is installed, due to menus written using IE6's renderer. Even some of Microsoft's own software -- e.g. the file transfer function in their Xbox 360 DDK -- breaks when IE7 is installed. Pushing this major upgrade as a forced update is irresponsible. This isn't what the Automatic Update system is supposed to be for.

    And even when nothing breaks, I suspect a lot of users are going to be pissed that their web browser interface has suddenly changed.

  4. Nice out-of-context quote, there by Control+Group · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For isc.sans.org (which is probably not your typical site), 50% of Firefox users already use Firefox 2.0, and 23% of Internet Explorer users use MSIE 7.0. Overall, we got about a 50/50 split between Firefox and Internet Explorer users.

    The stats on the site don't say much at all about the uptake of IE7 (or FF2, for that matter) among the general internet-using population. As you can see in the quote, the article doesn't make any pretensions that they do, either, noting that sans.org isn't a typical site.

    Which is obvious, given the breakdown of FF vs IE users. A 50/50 split is obviously not a representative sample.

    The second half of this blurb is blatantly misleading.

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  5. Re:IE7 *should* be adopted. sooner the better. by caseih · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Good luck. IE7 fixes enough CSS to make it not work with the old IE 6 hacks but not enough to allow you to use one sane standard CSS template. Sorry.