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Microsoft Upgrading Windows Users To Latest Version of MSIE

Posted by timothy on from the great-and-powerful-oz dept.

helix2301 writes "Microsoft will be upgrading all Windows XP, Vista and 7 users to the latest IE silently. They are doing this because they have found a large number of non-patched systems. Microsoft pointed out that Chrome and Firefox do this regularly. They will start with Australia and Brazil in January, then go world-wide after they have assured there are no issues."

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  1. No! It is a bad idea!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm a web developer who actually LIKES IE 6 & IE 7.

    If a client wants IE 6 compatibility, I get to charge them a significant premium. Please MS, don't do this.

  2. Re:For your own good by s1d3track3D · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yes, this is great in general (assuming they keep aiming for standards compliance) Personal users benefit, developers benefit, browser competition benefits, etc.

    However, I know many Corporations that have in-house applications that can ONLY run on IE6. Often these legacy apps are extremely important for the company and are non-trivial to update to more recent browser versions. (or, the company does not have the resources to work on this)

    For many corp's this will be an IT nightmare.

    (however, I mean really, these Co's have had 20 years to upgrade these app and they have chosen not to, so at some point maybe a 'stick' is needed)