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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'."
Now we'll see which browser has the greatest growth rate in January!
Microsoft claims that the decision was made due to 'security concerns'."
So this means they're feeing insecure about their market share?
Go firefox!
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
Except I can guarantee that at least one of my clients will cling doggedly to IE6, just to piss me off...
iptables -A INPUT -s update.microsoft.com -j DROP
at least for a month
The quicker Microsoft gets rid of non-standard software, the better the alternatives work. I know there's quite a bit of sites that don't work under firefox, but the user doesn't have a choice (like my parent's payroll site at the gov't). While IE7 is still a long ways away from ideal, we must say that it's better than IE6 (using the lesser of two evils theory), and I'm happy that they made this choice.
The firefox penetration has increased to the point where people don't know what it is, but they've been told it's better, so they use it.
x86, oh yes, I'm pro.
I can't wait until Ron Paul gets elected, personally. At least then we won't have to deal with M$ and the government breathing down our necks.
You seem to have a pretty realistic view. Microsoft will release a standards compliant browser around the time that Ron Paul is actually elected president. You just forgot the cold fusion powered flying cars.
Well, thanks to the Internet, I'm now bored with sex.
> Unfortunately, we still have clients who insist on using Windows 2000 (which can't run IE 7). Thankfully, they don't stick to IE 5.5 and complain that the sites "don't look right"
;-)
Ok, I'm not at work today but let's just pretend like I am...
1. Fires up IE
2. These sites just don't look right in this
3. Things are updated as far as they can be.
4. Oh yeah that's right NT 4.0.
Damn you microsoft.
+----------------- | What is the question!
This is somewhat off topic, but whatever.
Has anyone else noticed how terrible tabbed browsing is in IE7?
Let's just say, hypothetically, I'm at my favorite porn site, looking at thumbnails. The plan is to ctrl-click the thumbnails and open them in tabs.
Once you get enough tabs open, there comes a point where IE7 bogs down tremendously when asked to dispaly jpgs, each in her own tab. Symptoms include clicks on the first tab are no longer acknowledged, and tremendous slowness moving between tabs.
After that, there comes a point where your ctrl-click won't even spawn a new tab.
Tabbed browsing is a great "innovation" in the IE product line, but in terms of performance and not being a resource hog, IE7 is easily outpaced by Mozilla and many others.
Wubi, which "is an unofficial Ubuntu installer for Windows users that will bring you into the Linux world with a single click."
Microsoft just wants to remind everyone who uses FireFox that IE is not their default browser.
I am not a web browser tester but... lately Firefox seems to be performing much better than it used to. It's still using a bit of memory, but I'm not getting any crashes, or aberrant behaviors. The worst I've noticed in months is Foxmarks sucking the life out of my cpu when synchronizing, but that can be monitored/avoided.
Literally the only time I've been annoyed with FF in a year is having to load IE6/7 to open a website that refused to recognize FF using IETab. And in that case, it's not FF that annoys me. I'd put the coder of that site on the DHS watchlist if I could!@@#$%@$#%
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I don't like what they have done with IE7.. especially removed support for Active Desktop that was very good and being a standard for 12 years..
--Phillip
Can you say BIRTH TAX
It doesn't matter how shortsighted the company is; if they develop for a platform, and it's necessary software for a job, then the platform will stay in place. The company designing the software can be as shortsighted as they want because they have their clients by the shorthairs.
Let's stop dilly-dallying and just change "-1: Overrated" to "-1: Disagree" or "-1: Doesn't Subscribe to Groupthink".
I work on an AJAX application, and Microsoft Visual Studio's debugger doesn't work with IE7. Most of our dev team still uses IE6 for this reason.