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'."

Comments

Re:Good in some ways...

[honorable1nut]

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!!

Re:Good in some ways...

[popeye44]

I'll be the first to say I agree IE6 is old and outdated.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.

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 ,steals or buys never do they innovate and rarely do they copy well.

Re:Good in some ways...

[kiddygrinder]

Microsoft's past and the fact that they have no reason to produce a browser that doesn't suck, don't be surprised when people treat a new release of IE with scorn. Supposedly the ie8 team are actually working on standards compliance. i know, freaked me out too. All that's left now is to see how they are going to turn this around to a nasty kick in the balls to web devs.