Microsoft gets silent upgrade religion, will push IE auto-updates

Concerned User · 15. Dec 2011, 04:57 PM

http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...E_auto_updates

Quote:

Beginning in January it will roll out automatic upgrades of IE to the newest version suitable for a user's version of Windows. Windows XP users still on IE6 or IE7, for example, will be updated to IE8; Windows Vista or Windows 7 users running IE7 or IE8 will be pushed to IE9

Corporate environments AKA offices (still) using IE6 block all updates (I've experienced this personally at an office). The IT team tests and rolls out updates over the weekend. So how will this impact them?

As for home users (still) using IE 6 or 7, most of them don't even turn on windows updates.

Expect a lot of chaos everywhere

Anupam · 15. Dec 2011, 04:59 PM

Oh well, they caught the Chrome bug too. Its quite contagious

J_L · 16. Dec 2011, 05:02 AM

It's quite reasonable as well, a safer web is for the good of everyone.

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16. Dec 2011, 05:02 AM	#3 (permalink)
J_L Co-Author, Best Free Security List Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 1,475	It's quite reasonable as well, a safer web is for the good of everyone.