Re: [Full-disclosure] [inbox] Re: MS are doing Windows Updates for XP to IE7

IE^ is still people's web browser, why should MS shove IE7 down our
throughts? Automatic update should be flexable enough to give you a "no IE
upgrade, patches only" checkbox...

Exibar

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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx]
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Subject: [inbox] Re: [Full-disclosure] MS are doing Windows Updates for
XP to IE7


On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:48:13 +1300, Nick FitzGerald said:
Well, yes, if you are (a) clued and (b) know it's coming. If
you've got it
set to download-and-install at 3AM every Wednesday morning,
you may be in for
a surprise....

If you're _NOT_ clued enough to know better then you "deserve" the
automatic, silent IE 7 "upgrade".

MS got this right.

I didn't say MS didn't get this right, in fact I agree that this
is the way
it should work.

Doesn't change the fact that several hundred million unclued
users are likely
to wonder what happened to their IE6. ;)


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