IE 7 Coming Via Automatic Update

[homeskillet]

Microsoft plans to automatically push Internet Explorer 7 to Windows XP users when the browser update is ready later this year.

IE 7 will be delivered in the fourth quarter as a "high priority" update via Automatic Updates in Windows XP, Gary Schare, Microsoft's director of IE product management, said in an interview Tuesday. Automatic Updates is a Windows feature typically used for security updates, but Microsoft has also used it to push its antipiracy tool WGA Notifications.

STORY: ZDNET @ http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6098500.html

[harsh]

Microsoft plans to automatically push Internet Explorer 7 to Windows XP users when the browser update is ready later this year. This is consistent with what they did with IE6. Fortunately, they allow you to deny most critical updates.

I much prefer the speed and relative security of IE5.5 if I'm forced to use IE at all.

[homeskillet]

I've been using the Beta 3 of IE 7 and I'm really impressed with it. Some have rated IE 7 over Firefox 1.5 in a poll I seen online but I can't find it now.

As I say... to each their own :)

[Bogy]

I haven't had any problems with the IE 7 beta, and I like it. I still use Firefox most of the time.

[Cholly]

I've been using the Beta 3 of IE 7 and I'm really impressed with it. Some have rated IE 7 over Firefox 1.5 in a poll I seen online but I can't find it now.

As I say... to each their own :)
Maixmum PC magazine did an analysis of the two a few issues back, and gave the nod to IE7 Beta. It wasn't a big victory for MS, as I recall. Each of the browsers had advantages and disadvantages. To me, the biggest problem with Firefox is the fact that many web sites just won't work with it, having been designed with the foibles of IE in mind.

[DonLandis]

If it works as well as or better than IE6, I have no problem with that. I have all my computers set to accept all MS updates automatically. Life has become simpler for me since I did that. I found I am better off spending my time keeping a close watch over stuff that can affect my livelihood and let the non-critical stuff like IE6 and SP for windows do it on it's own. I know many people play around with different browsers but as long as IE gets me the information when I click on the URL I have no issues with it and find no need to skin the cat from the butt up if from the head down is doing the job. On my PDA I added, not replaced Opera because it can do java and auto load WMP that MS PIE can't do. But for browsing I still launch PIE The difference is that PIE has less overhead and will launch very quickly while Opera takes a long time chews up more memory and then once loaded runs very fast. But due to the overhead, I can't run multiple apps with Opera so it is definitly a tradeoff. I suspect those tooting the FF horn may be doing some tradeoff as well. The differences I have seen posted on FF and other desktop browsers have not been compelling enough for me to spend any time trying it. While it wasn't true 10 years ago, today, I appreciate some of these basics to just do their job good enough, automatically. However, I do get annoyed when these auto "improvements" come along and I discover I go 2 steps forward and 5 backward. That seems to be par for the game with DishNetwork DVR's Unfortunately, what choice do I have? So, in the case of IE7- It will update here automatically, and if I find it is a trojan horse of trouble, FF here I come. :)

[MikeSoltis]

Well they need to fix it. Beta 2 & 3 both 'break' Adobe Updater (automates updating of PS CS2, Photoshop Elements, etc.).

Microsoft needs to learn to play nice with others. Firefox still rules!!

[harsh]

Well they need to fix it. Beta 2 & 3 both 'break' Adobe Updater (automates updating of PS CS2, Photoshop Elements, etc.).

Microsoft needs to learn to play nice with others.As M$ is currently feuding with Adobe, they probably don't see this as a downside.

[Bogy]

I want to update my comment on IE7 Beta 3. One of the things I spent a lot of time on while I was vacationing was to work on our Family Tree. I use Family Tree Maker 2006. I have a subscription to Ancestry.com, which allows me to search for possible links to individuals in my family with the click of a button. If the preview shows a possible match, I can click to check online. FTM only seems to want to work with IE. I would say that at least 80% of the time IE7 B3 locks up before it loads anything. The second attempt normally opens up. It does the same thing with other programs, but this is the one I have been using the most. MS should be aware of this by now, I have forwarded enough error messages. :( Once it is up and running, the features are good.

[Geronimo]

Maixmum PC magazine did an analysis of the two a few issues back, and gave the nod to IE7 Beta. It wasn't a big victory for MS, as I recall. Each of the browsers had advantages and disadvantages. To me, the biggest problem with Firefox is the fact that many web sites just won't work with it, having been designed with the foibles of IE in mind.


Actually I don't find that amany websites that won't work with firefox anymore. Even when I do there are two handy dandy extensions that get around the problem. One is an agent switcher thant makes the site think it is being viewed in IE and the other is one that opens a new tab or window using the IE engine.

I almost never use IE anymore.