On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:15:35 -0400, you wrote:
>What's your opinion on the fact that MSFT is going to call this a
>High Priority via Windows Update later this year?
>
>>To help our customers become more secure and up-to-date, Microsoft
>>will distribute Internet Explorer 7 as a high-priority update via
>>Automatic Updates for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 soon after
>>the final version of the browser is released (planned for fourth quarter
>>2006).
>
>If you have Windows Auto-Update turned on then you'll never know that
>you downloaded a new browser until you run IE & voila' you'll be
>running version 7. I personally have my Auto-Update set to "Notify me
>but don't automatically download or install them" so it's not as much
>of a problem. I would rather download & install IE 7 RTM [released to
>manufacturing] edition on another machine before I use it on my main
>production machine. Of course one can download IE 7 beta 3 for Xp Sp2
>at
><http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4c1a8fbe-fb6a-47ac-867d-bb1f17e477ee&displaylang=en>
>
>One can have the auto-update of just IE to version 7 turned off via a
>tool that MSFT has provided
><http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4516A6F7-5D44-482B-9DBD-869B4A90159C&displaylang=en>
>and there is an FAQ about it
>at
><http://www.microsoft.com/technet/updatemanagement/windowsupdate/ie7blockertoolfaq.mspx>
>
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I have auto update on but am still running V6.0
Sir Hugh of Bognor
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