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February 12th, 2008

A reminder: Microsoft to push WGA-free IE 7 to business users today

Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 6:13 am

Categories: Anti-piracy, Corporate strategy, Internet Explorer, WGA

Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley

It’s February 12. Today’s the day that Microsoft is set to push its Windows-Genuine-Advantage-free version of Internet Explorer (IE) 7 to customers using Windows Software Update Services (WSUS).

This is the release of IE 7, officially known as IE 7 Installation and Availability Update, which Microsoft made available for individuals to download on their own back in October 2007.

Customers using WSUS 3.0 and/or those customers running IE 6 on Windows machines who don’t want the new IE 7 update to install automatically will need to take action, the manageability team noted. Specifically, administrators will need to disable auto-approval.

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Whatever IE7 Update was contained
...in the patch Tuesday updates yesterday fixed IE7 on my machine. It wouldn't fully complete the page loads yesterday and before, but now does. Kudos to MS on that fix! It appeared to have something to do w/ the phishing filter, but is not a problem anymore.

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Posted by: cglrcng@... Posted on: 02/13/08 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
IE 7 crashes on certain Flash applications...  JonathonDoe | 02/12/08
Some Firefox plugins crash too  PB_z | 02/12/08
Perhaps Firefox does too, but IE6 doesn't...  JonathonDoe | 02/12/08
Re: IE 7 crashes on certain Flash applications  tmkent@... | 02/12/08
Absolutely Wild.  Cayble | 02/12/08
Positively MORE wild.  Ole Man | 02/13/08
RE: A reminder: Microsoft to push WGA-free IE 7 to business users today  none none | 02/12/08
Windows not offering a genuine advantage?  fr0thy | 02/12/08
Genuinely  morrig | 02/13/08
Flash crash on purpose  doctordawg | 02/12/08
You mean "IE's not done 'till Flash won't run"?  JonathonDoe | 02/12/08
It's "The Microsoft Way"  Ole Man | 02/13/08
RE: A reminder: Microsoft to push WGA-free IE 7 to business users today  jsr92643 | 02/12/08
..how about Avant Browser  petrusa001 | 02/12/08
Whatever IE7 Update was contained  cglrcng@... | 02/13/08

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