IE7 To Ship With Windows Patches Tomorrow [Not]

An anonymous reader writes, "Microsoft plans to push out Internet Explorer 7 as a 'high priority update' when it ships security patches tomorrow, according to Washingtonpost.com's Security Fix blog. That means anyone who has Windows configured to download and install patches automagically from Redmond will be greeted with IE7 next time they boot up their machines. In related news, it appears IE's worldwide market share actually increased a couple of points since July, despite a number of high profile zero-day attacks this year." The article notes that the IE7 "containment wall" protected mode will not be available on XP, but only to those who purchase Vista.

Update: 10/09 21:26 GMT by kd : An anonymous reader points to this Microsoft blog posting where it is revealed that the article linked above is incorrect. IE7 will not be pushed tomorrow.

Thank God

[Mateo_LeFou]

I've been looking forward to that whole tabbed-browsing thing they invented

As an occassional web developer

[arevos]

I was dreading the inevitable process of trying to get a new CSS design working in IE 6; but hopefully now I don't have to :)

Re:Containment Wall

[emarkp]

Yes, it's typically done by installing Firefox or Opera on XP. It's the proven solution that I use.

Re:For a Firefox user:

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

explanation of the pro's and con's of putting IE7 on my XP box?

Sure:

- Pros: you get the latest Microsoft software that hopefully *fixes* the previous version
- Cons: you get the latest Microsoft software that *hopefully* fixes the previous version

IE7-Only sites start soon

[alohatiger]

Probably a few days after IE7 comes out we'll have "new and improved" websites that only work on IE7.

Tomorrow is accurate...

[Hillgiant]

...for sufficiently large values of Today.