Microsoft strips some Windows 7 users of IE11 patch privileges

Computerworld ^ | June 15, 2014 07:32 AM ET | Gregg Keizer

[WhiskeyX]

Computerworld - Microsoft has quietly stopped serving security updates to Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) on consumer and small business Windows 7 PCs unless the customer has successfully applied an April update for the browser.

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Users who have not installed the IE security update issued on April 8 -- identified by Microsoft as MS14-018 -- on Windows 7, and who rely on Windows Update to download and install fixes, did not receive the June 10 IE update. Nor will IE11 receive any future updates, security or otherwise, until that MS14-018 has been installed. Windows Update will not display the appropriate IE11 patches.

[Yo-Yo]

Thank you very much for (not) documenting exactly what “features” you seem to be referring to that need to be “turned off” in Win7. Thank you also for (not) referencing the Microsoft knowledge base article that admits these incompatabilities.

[The Cajun]

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