Microsoft to Force IE7 Update on February 12th 480
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'."
Silverlight (Score:5, Interesting)
While I coud use the money... (Score:3, Interesting)
OK, note to self: week of Feb 12, expect many calls from windows-using clients...
Re:Good in some ways... (Score:3, Interesting)
And, if you need to check if a page works in IE6, you have it right there. I just checked the IE history on my XP box -- there was not a single entry outside the local servers.
Our intranet site uses IE6 activeX... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Silverlight (Score:3, Interesting)
http://silverlight.net/forums/p/3668/10602.aspx [silverlight.net]
Still haven't fixed it. Though at least now it seems their devs have acknowledged its existence.
6 or 7 p0wned by Firefox (Score:3, Interesting)
That would be me (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Good in some ways... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Good in some ways... (Score:3, Interesting)
While this is true, it's also not relevant. Microsoft make a deliberate choice to look at a standard then figure out how much "wiggle room" they have to interpret it "creatively", producing something that is different from everyone else in the market yet arguably (with the correct dictionary) "compliant". Then they blow the marketing budget of a mid-size company on changing the public perception of their product from "different" to "better" so that they can lock users into it.
Re:Good in some ways... (Score:4, Interesting)
Firefox, Opera, Safari, and the various other Gecko/KHTML/WebKit derivatives aren't on their own significant enough to warrant special treatment, but taken together (which makes sense, as they generally adhere to the same standards) they're a pretty persuasive argument for standards-compliant mark-up: especially when you take into account the fact that IE 7 isn't remotely as bad at dealing with it as IE 6 is.
Includes "Windows Genuine Advantage validation"?! (Score:5, Interesting)
"This update includes Windows Genuine Advantage Validation."
I guess so few people are "choosing" to install their spyware that they now they are bundling it with other stuff? This is AFTER Microsloth said they weren't going to do such a thing:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/10/04/internet-explorer-7-update.aspx [msdn.com]
Marc
Re:Good in some ways... (Score:4, Interesting)
Because most vertical web apps are so poorly written that they rely on the bugs and problems in IE6 to function. Almost every single app I had to manage at my last job was IE6 specific and written by a bunch of blathering idiots, I regularly went into the asp code to fix something they said cant be fixed.
Most companies buy the low grade dog food webapp suites as they have no other choice and then they are stuck having to support it's quirks until that company actually hires competent programmers or someone else comes along and makes something different.
It's a Poke in the Eye to Oracle OAS. (Score:1, Interesting)
MS coders have it made, no longer update old prod (Score:4, Interesting)
Seriously, it blew me away in the mid 90s when the press+dog just let Microsoft refuse to provide USB support for the previous OS product and claimed that if you want USB support, you must purchase a new computer or fumble through an upgrade. IIRC, Windows 98 and NT v4 were such products though NT v4 was a larger update since they both moved the graphics subsystem into the kernel and added the win95 shell/desktop along with adding USB support.
I would love to be a fly on the wall for all those meetings they have on how to get customers to upgrade. There's got to be some very funny and some very scary recommendations being thrown around those meetings. It's got to be tough for Microsoft, wanting customers to be lame enough to not look outside of Microsoft for software solutions yet at the same time, be willing to keep upgrading Microsoft products every couple of months and like it.
LoB
IE7 for Win2k? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Talk about innacurate (Score:2, Interesting)
The whole ARTICLE IS ABOUT WSUS, not home users, WSUS.
Thanks for proving my point about Linux fanboi's seeing only what they want to see.