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Microsoft to Force IE7 Update on February 12th
Z80xxc! writes "InfoWorld is reporting that on February 12th, Microsoft will roll out Internet Explorer 7 through Windows Server Update Services to all systems - regardless of whether or not the update had been requested previously. The piece also mentions ways to prevent the update from occurring, for sysadmins who do not want to use IE7 on their systems. Microsoft claims that the decision was made due to 'security concerns'."
Not in others.......... IE7 WILL NOT be going on any of my machines and if it does somehow get forced onto it, that's when I make the decision to go Linux full tilt. Have been dual booting for quite some time, and definitely feel comfortable enough to take that full time leap. Especially with the new Zenwalk 5.0 out, which I'm about to upgrade my third computer to, here in a minute. Other computers dual boot XP and Blag, which has an upgrade coming shortly also. Screw MS!!
Bury you head in the sand for years, then when the fan has been buried in shit, whine you need more time.
This are internally developed apps, so why on earth did you develop all these years for the pile of shit that is IE when free and better browsers were availabe. Browsers that cost nothing to update and that follow standards so that you can switch between them at your choice, perhaps even use an NON-windows OS entirely.
No, you enslaved yourselve to MS by your own free will or incomepetence and are now crying because MS finally has decided that they can't delay any longer because IE6 is hurting their business and forces people like you to upgrade.
NONE of this wouldhave happened if you had a brain and just switched your company to a better browser years ago. Call it leadership, call it having a clue, you apparently have neither and now expect us to care.
This is EXACTLY what people have been warning about all this time, use MS software and you are at their mercy.
You made your bed, can you guess the next bit?
This is exactly with the whole ODF/OOXML is about as well, can I take a wild guess as to the deployment of non-ms controlled standards in documents in your company?
Oh and if someone else in IT forced you to do this, simply lay the bill for this adjustment to the enforced IE7 migration on their desk, that is standard office culture. Someone forces crap on you, you make the costs coming out of their budget.
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I'll be the first to say I agree IE6 is old and outdated. But compared to Firefox IE7 is a fat brown stinky turd.
,steals or buys never do they innovate and rarely do they copy well.
Actions and uses I can do in firefox cannot be duplicated in IE7. It fails far more than it succeeds as a browser replacement for IE6. I use Firefox for most of my surfing and it's my default. I'm well aware it's not perfect but as for security and functionality it performs well.
I have used IE7 at work but out of 24 IT people I am the only one with it and we cannot upgrade until a BUNCH of backend stuff is upgraded. It would probably not be so bad for most of our users as they have been using a non-tabbed browser but anyone who's used Firefox and are used to shortcuts being where they should be IE7 makes you shake your head at how much they got wrong.
MS copies
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You see, some of us look beyond one article. Some of use can see larger trends by doing so. And in this particular case, some of us are fully aware that telecommuters factor into the equation.
It's kinda cool how this "thinking" stuff works... you should try it sometime. ;)
It's not the "what I want to see" that I deal in, it's the "what I'll very likely end up seeing" that needs paying attention to.
(we now return you to your regularly scheduled attempts at "fanboi" bashing)
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