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Re: [inbox] Re: MS are doing Windows Updates for XP to IE7
From: "Exibar" <exibar () thelair com>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:12:44 -0500
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
-----Original Message----- From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu] Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 7:26 PM To: nick () virus-l demon co uk Cc: full-disclosure () lists grok org uk 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. Ifyou've got itset to download-and-install at 3AM every Wednesday morning,you may be in fora 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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- MS are doing Windows Updates for XP to IE7 Aaron Gray (Oct 29)
- Re: MS are doing Windows Updates for XP to IE7 Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 29)
- Re: MS are doing Windows Updates for XP to IE7 Charles Hamby (Oct 29)
- Re: MS are doing Windows Updates for XP to IE7 Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 29)
- Re: MS are doing Windows Updates for XP to IE7 Nick FitzGerald (Oct 29)
- Re: MS are doing Windows Updates for XP to IE7 Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 29)
- Re: [inbox] Re: MS are doing Windows Updates for XP to IE7 Exibar (Oct 29)
- Re: MS are doing Windows Updates for XP to IE7 Larry Seltzer (Oct 29)
- Re: MS are doing Windows Updates for XP to IE7 Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 29)
- Re: MS are doing Windows Updates for XP to IE7 Matthew Flaschen (Oct 29)