IE7 To Ship With Windows Patches Tomorrow [Not] 293
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.
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.
The article says this month (Score:5, Informative)
Tomorrow seems a likely time to me...
no no no (Score:5, Informative)
The article says "could be" (Score:2, Informative)
If you dont want to install it... (Score:4, Informative)
It looks like you have the option to just click "no thanks" when it asks you if you want to upgrade to IE7.
Tomorrow is not accurate (Score:3, Informative)
Re:admission (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Good or bad news for the web developers? (Score:3, Informative)
That will break the methods you can use to have different versions of the browser looking at the same content in a way compatible to each of them.
Re:every time I try firefox, I go back. (Score:2, Informative)
How to avoid a possible disaster - For Admins (Score:5, Informative)
This is for all the Network Admins for Windows Networks.
If you do not want Automatic Updates to Install IE7 when it is released then just set the following registry key on every workstation:
NOTE: This is highly recommended as everytime I dealt with any Major release from Microsoft things started getting trashed. Microsoft should NOT Automatically deploy this in this way.
For lazy/Proficient Admins here is a Kixtart Script to do this on a list of computers over the network: NoAutoIE7.txt [pcc-services.com]
But it still has serious usability bugs (Score:3, Informative)
The suggested work-around of disabling the anti-phishing filter doesn't work (and isn't acceptable anyway).
LOTS of people are experiencing this problem. I can't believe they're pushing it out with this serious of an issue. I've provided them logs and such, but they only got them last Thursday, so I doubt there's been any fix (hell, I doubt they've even looked at them yet).
It's completely irresponsible to be pushing it out. Looking at the list of outstanding "large" bugs, and knowing the problems I myself have had with it, it's not yet ready for primetime.