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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'."
Where I work, the ASP.Net apps work only with IE6 with ActiveX enabled. Trying to use the apps with IE7 is a huge mess and causes support requests.
Also, there is a college in our campus where about 900 students use Moodle very regularly on XP. Moodle has been working fine on IE6 and lately Firefox; but for some reason the IE6 experience seems to be the best. Now if there is an auto-update to IE7, all hell will break loose.
If IE6 is a security hazard; and MS is not keen to resolve them; why not open the source; so interested customers can do so themselves?
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
IE7 is pretty much the same than IE6. It just adds a awful UI and tabs, the engine is pretty much the same crap. I've no reason to switch to IE7: Because IE is a critic piece of software in windows machines, installing IE 7 can be painful and error-prone.
If I want a better browser, I use firefox. I'm not going to touch IE 6 - I'd be risking my machine for something that does NOT gives me any significant advantage. Besides, I love to make microsoft's life difficult.
Opera far more standards compliant than Firefox? i don't think so. According to Web Devout, Opera 9 and Firefox 2 have about equal support for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and DOM standards. Let's just stop it with the Opera hype, already. It's too easy to see right through it.
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.