Actually, Microsoft are going to be pushing IE7 as a high priority
update through Windows Update.
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+tags+IE+7+high+priority+update/2100-7350_3-6098500.html
So for many people (at those who have automatic updates turned on), IE 7
will be installed automatically.... but then of course youve still got
the crowd that dont even have SP2 installed, so its a good bet that IE6
will still be a heavily used browser for XP users (not to mention the
people still using 2000/ME/98 etc).
Also, while I have no evidence to back this up, I sincerely doubt that
the XP/Vista products will have any differences that will effect
developer/designers.... sure that may have different security
implementations, but from a basic CSS/Javascript point of view, these
should be platform independant and simply be a feature of IE7 itself, as
with IE6.
(now, if IE 6 is different on 2000 than XP, I'll probably end up eating
my words :p)
Thanks,
David.
Jason Foss wrote:
Yeah... can't really say this is good news. Most people on XP won't
upgrade to IE7, so we'll have to test IE7 on XP for a realtively small
percentage I expect.
That won't be bad if it behaves the same on XP as it does on Vista
mind you, but if has differences on Vista as opposed to XP then that
will be a bit of a pain. Shall have to wait and see.
And yes - there are a gazillion bootleg copies of XP out there - all
from the corporate edition that don't require activation. Got my hands
on one way back when XP was only a few months old! At least this time
legal copies of Vista Beta are readily available for testing, that
will probably go a long way towards reducing demand for bootleg
versions.
On 28/07/06, Christian Montoya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/27/06, Paul Novitski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 09:46 AM 7/27/2006, Christian Montoya wrote:
Are there any stats on how many users have a bootleg copy of Windows
XP? I have a feeling it's a huge number.
Maybe I'm being naive, but I thought you "can't" bootleg XP because
each copy of the software gets registered to a single computer. When
I moved from desktop to laptop a few years ago, and then six months
later moved to another laptop, I actually had to persuade a dubious
human being on the phone at Microsoft that I wasn't pirating their
operating system. Like all security systems this is no doubt
hackable (by spoofing the software id and/or whatever adds up to be
the computer id), but I imagine that's too sophisticated a hack for
the average computer geek, much less for the average user.
I would take your word for it, but I know people who have bootleg copies.
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