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Auto Install of IE 7 Delayed In Japan 201

Posted by Zonk on Saturday November 04, 2006 @07:40PM from the for-reasons dept.

filenavigator writes "Microsoft has delayed the automatic install of IE 7 in Japan. There's an an interesting response in one of the MSDN blogs. IT pros are saying that they have done this because business users asked it to be delayed. It seems to me many business users here in North America wanted it to be delayed as well, but were forced to scramble and deploy IE 7 blocking software. This looks like more proof that the IE 7 automatic push was more for marketing reasons, than security. If it were a security issue, than why wait on the Japanese push?" Does anyone know the 'technical' reason that the autoinstall was delayed?

Nuclear Tech Race Is On In Middle East 352

Posted by Zonk on Saturday November 04, 2006 @04:41PM from the winner-could-also-be-the-loser dept.

CaroKann writes "The TimesOnline is reporting that six Middle Eastern nations have announced interest in developing nuclear technology. The nations involved are Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The Middle East Economic Digest states that most of these nations are interested in developing nuclear technology for the purpose of powering desalination plants. However, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, suggests that the sudden interest in nuclear technology is driven by the desire of the six nations to create a 'security hedge' in response to Iran's recent nuclear development program."

Comment word choice? (Score 2, Funny) 258

by brewman123 on Thursday January 27, 2005 @07:04PM (#11497966) Attached to: Disc Writers Now Print the Label Too

This means that rather than have to write the contents onto the media by hand, use a separate specialist

(word choice?) disc printer, or sticky label, users can achieve silk-screen quality images using LightScribe-enabled Verbatim CD/DVD discs with the optical drive's laser pickup.

apparently a bad word choice for "word choice?"

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