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Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 10 For Windows 7

Posted by timothy on from the double-digits-on-the-prime dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 is out. Windows 8 may suck but now you can at least enjoy (most of) that version's Internet Explorer. IE10 for Win7, originally not planned, has seen the light of day after all — four months after it debuted in Windows 8. It is available via Windows Update as an optional update; however, if you've already installed a pre-release version, it will be updated automatically as an 'important' update. IE10 on Win7 requires a platform update to bring some Windows 8 APIs to the more mature Windows, and it will not feature embedded Adobe Flash as the Windows 8 version does (use the plug-in version from Adobe, as usual, instead)."

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  1. Actually... I'm glad. by Kenja · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have to do compatibility testing and dont want to have to install Windows 8, even on a VMWare image.

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    1. Re:Actually... I'm glad. by t4ng* · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I never understood why Microsoft, with all its code signing, frameworks, and what-not, never opened up an API for Windows Update so there could be a single update system instead of every OEM and software company piling on their own update systems. Seems simple...

      1. Register application and its update url with Windows Update API.
      2. Windows API checks code signing, rejects invalid and unsigned code.
      3. Windows Update updates all code-signed software on system.
      4. ...
      5. Profit?

      Ah! Now I see why it hasn't been done!

  2. Re:This is why people hate MS by sjames · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The funny thing is that everyone else manages to produce a modern browser without altering the underlying OS to do so. That's why the latest and greatest Firefox, Chrome, and Opera run on anything XP and later but IE versions are segmented.

    Yet MS claims that they do not leverage their unique level of control over the Windows OS to benefit their non-OS products. Things like using secret un-published APIs or hacking on the APIs to benefit their other software exclusively...

  3. Re:Summary is FUD. Windows 8 does not suck. by Nocturnal+Deviant · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not sure which world you are in, but in the age where humans dont have elephant arms for holding their hands up all day every day messing with a touch screen on a desktop, it sure isnt this world where windows 8 Does suck. This is primarily a website for IT and Developers, people who make things/work for others, if you want a site that is about the average joe with his laptop, go ahead praise it all you want, but this is news for nerds, and according to nerd usage, yes, it does suck.

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