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January 21, 2008
Microsoft Forces IE7 Update
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on January 21, 2008 at 5:20:18 PM
Next month, Microsoft will start to force the IE7 update to all end users including corporations. They cite security concerns, but I bet there are other factors.
That's what happens when you are at the mercy of a single vendor without being able to see the code.
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"Because Microsoft takes its commitment to help protect the entire Windows ecosystem seriously, we're updating the IE7 installation experience to make it available as broadly as possible to all Windows users," said Steve Reynolds, an IE program manager, on a Microsoft company blog in early October. "Internet Explorer 7 installation will no longer require Windows Genuine Advantage validation and will be available to all Windows XP users." The IE7 Installation and Availability Update was immediately made available for manual downloading and was offered to consumers and small-business users via the Windows Update service in the weeks that followed. Beginning Feb. 12, the new IE7 package will be put into the WSUS pipeline as an Update Rollup package.
That's what happens when you are at the mercy of a single vendor without being able to see the code.
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