'It's Here' Says Microsoft; Launches IE 7 Final, Finally

TechWeb ^ | October 18, 2006 | Gregg Keizer

[ConservativeMind]

Everyone not technically adept enough to optionally download and correctly install the blocker and all who have Automatic Updates turned on.

It's in the article, ET.

[zeugma]

I'll stick with Opera, when reading a thread on FR and when it's refreshed it takes you where you were reading, not to the bottom of the page.

Actually, it takes you to the same percentage down the page that you were before you refreshed. Of course, if you're at the bottom when you do that, you'll end up at the bottom :-)

I, too, find this behavior slightly annoying. I generally check the msg# I'm reading before I refresh, then enter /## to jump me to it. 

[Central Scrutiniser]

Screw Micro$oft.

Get this, Vista only allows 2 installs, then its time to pony up more cash. Only one copy running at a time, but, you trash your drive more than once? Pay Bill.

[zeugma]

This will create havoc for a large number of people. It is wrong.

It's going to create a nightmare for corporate support desks, because IE7 breaks a lot of stuff. We already know that a bunch of our internal servers won't work correctly with IE7 out of the box, if at all.

[Echo Talon]

I just went to windows update and it did not install nor did it ask to be installed, i downloaded it from the IE7 site(but haven't installed it yet and still have IE6 on THIS machine)

[Calvin Locke]

I guess their market segmentation strategy is going to exclude me by default, then.

I'll just limit myself to Linux games, and reignite my interest in former pursuits.

[Echo Talon]

sounds like a bunch of BS to me.

[zeugma]

everyones favorite company to bash.

Even you would have to admit, that in the case of their browser, the derision is richly deserved. 

[Current Occupant]

If I'm at the bottom, say at post 36 and another 15 posts come in and I refresh, it takes me to post 37, not the bottom.

[ConservativeMind]

Look, your BS meter is way off, ET.

From the article:

Microsoft will begin rolling out the browser as a "High priority" update next month. In July, when Microsoft offered up a toolkit to indefinitely postpone IE 7's installation, it justified using Automatic Updates, a mechanism for providing patches to Windows, because of the new browser's security implications.

Of course it is optional NOW! It won't be next month.

Read the dang article before saying my words are a "bunch of BS".

[Central Scrutiniser]

I don't use Windows update, even though I have circumvented WGA.

http://windowsupdate.62nds.com/

If you want to update windows, via Firefox.

[Echo Talon]

like you can't stop and update? come on... just uncheck it.. sheesh... "the sky is falling" why someone would WANT a less secure browser is beyond me.

[Echo Talon]

i have used that site before.

[N3WBI3]

tech ping

[Echo Talon]

Even you would have to admit, that in the case of their browser, the derision is richly deserved.

for IE6 but someone here is complaing that MS might take it away from him! LOL sheesh... IE7 is just as good as FF IMHO just a little bit different button location and such.

[N3WBI3]

I would not say everyone we have a fair share of apple bashers and of course a few Linux haters around..

[ConservativeMind]

When it comes as a critical or high-priority item, it will be automatically selected and installed.

This is not a problem with me, but the vast majority of people are not like you and me. They will wind up with something that will both confuse and potentially not work right.

Get your head out, ET. Users are all geniuses. If you've ever had to support them, you'd know this.

[ConservativeMind]

Users are NOT all geniuses, I meant to say.

[N3WBI3]

The two installs only is garbage but the 'only one at a time' is standard. When you buy software you dont buy the right to 1000 copies of it.

[Central Scrutiniser]

BTW, there is a version of IE7 which has been cracked to remove WGA up on the torrent sites.

It says to make sure you have normaliz.dll in the windows/system32 subdirectory.

Oh, and Flight simulator X is out, typical Micro$oft, they promised support for 64 bit, but don't have it, promised to have it written for dual core processors, but its not.

It looks pretty, but I have a damned fast system and it still stutters (AMD 64 X2 4600+ and GeForce 7600GS 256K video)