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Internet Explorer Drops WGA Requirement

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the while-the-getting-is-good dept.

Kelson writes "The Internet Explorer team has updated the installer for IE7. Mostly they've adjusted a few defaults and updated their tutorials, but one change stands out: The installer no longer requires Windows Genuine Advantage validation. Almost a year after its release, IE7 has yet to overtake its predecessor. Was WGA holding back a tide of potential upgrades, or did it just send people over to alternative browsers?"

3 of 220 comments (clear)

  1. The real reason uptake is slow... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In my company at least, many of the systems use HTTP. IE7 was tested, and none of these systems worked well enough on it. The same thing with the company I worked for before. It just isn't reliable enough.

  2. you fa+il it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Obsessives and the too many^ rules and ass of thEm all, Decentralized conversations where dim. Due to the posts on Usenet are

  3. No, *you* fail it by ajs318 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why are we still getting these spam posts that go to the error page where a picture that some might consider to be offensive used to be hosted?

    I could understand spam posts going to a shock picture, but not an error message.

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