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Microsoft Plays Nicely with IT Departments – Lets Block Internet Explorer 8 Installations
Profy —
... The usual concern in IT departments is that once some new software is introduced to the market and is available for download, eager users will want to install it on their office computers and in some cases incompatibility with existing installed applications can cause totally unpredicted difficulties. To avoid this situation once Internet Explorer 8 is available for installation via automatic update, Microsoft has decided to offer IE8 Blocker Toolkit for IT departments to install them in advance and prevent users from installing the browser the IT specialists don’t trust ...
Microsoft preps to push IE 8; makes blocking tool available
All about Microsoft —
... As it has done with previous Internet Explorer (IE) releases, Microsoft has made available an IE 8 blocking toolkit to allow users to keep Microsoft’s browser from being downloaded automatically on their Windows machines. In a January 6 posting to the Microsoft IE blog, company officials noted that Microsoft is planning to push the final IE 8 release via its Automatic Update (AU), Windows Update (WU) and Microsoft Update (MU) update systems. To keep the release from being pushed, customers can ...
Sorry, We Missed You
Microsoft Watch —
... Blogging continued at Apple Watch with posts: Apple Watch pushed through unscathed because the blog is tied to eweek.com, which wasn't affected by the outage. Microsoft Watch has its own domain. I will be live blogging, here, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's Consumer Electronics Show keynote. Tonight. At the least, I expect him to talk about Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8. I expect Microsoft will release the next IE 8 beta within days of Windows 7 Beta 1 availability. Microsoft made available the IE Blocker Toolkit , so that businesses can prevent automatic download. IE 8 is ...
Coming soon: Internet Explorer 8 RC1
Download Squad —
... That statement, coupled with last week's arrival of the IE8 blocker kit make a strong case for an impending release. If you're not excited about receiving IE8 as an automatic update, you may want to ...
More Details About IE8, Web Standards and Performance
Wired: Epicenter —
... Vista and Windows Server 2008. Older versions of XP won't be supported.
If you install IE8 RC1, will it automatically be updated to the final version via Windows' normal automatic update channels. You won't have to uninstall/reinstall IE8 when the final version arrives. This will upgrade IE7 users, as well.
Microsoft throttles Windows updates, so not everyone will be offered IE8 through auto-update immediately upon release.
Furthermore, there's an auto-update blocker toolkit available for IE8.
About web standards: ...
Prepare for Automatic Update distribution of IE8
Bink.nu —
... In January we blogged about our plan
to distribute IE8 via Automatic Update/Windows Update (for simplicity,
we'll refer to this as Automatic Update for the rest of this blog
post). This post provides some additional information about how users
and administrators are in control of browser upgrades. ...
Windows users: Internet Explorer 8 is coming to you
TechBlog —
... or from Windows Update as an optional update. For more information about the Automatic Update experience, see Jane Maliouta's blog post from January 6 th . If you downloaded one of the publicly released test versions of IE8 - the public beta or release candidate - you may already have seen an alert that the finished version is available through Windows Update. Clearly, you should accept this download, because it includes performance and security improvements you'll want. But if you're still on an older version of IE, what should you do? In general, ...
Microsoft to Insist Old IE Users Upgrade to IE8
AppScout —
... The update will be characterized as "High Priority" or "Important," depending on the operating system. The underlying message is that Microsoft regards both older versions of Internet Explorer as inherently insecure; IE8 is "faster, easier, safer and more reliable," the company explained in a January blog post. ...
