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[Nvyseal]

When Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP is ready to ship later this year, Microsoft plans to urge users to get it by making it a "high priority" update via Automatic Updates--but you will be able to decline the upgrade.

"Internet Explorer 7 contains significant security enhancements that qualify it for delivery over Automatic Updates, and Microsoft recommends that all genuine Windows customers install it," the company said in a news release. However the Automatic Update software won't automatically install the new version. Instead, users will see a screen that briefly describes IE7's improvements and offers three buttons: "Install," "Don't Install" and "Ask Me Later."

Clicking "Ask Me Later" will produce the upgrade advisory later; clicking "Don't Install" will bar any future prompts, a Microsoft spokeswoman said.

On the fence about IE7? You can read my colleague Erik Larkin's blog entry on the latest public beta, a free download from Microsoft's IE7 site. You can also read what Microsoft has to say about today's announcement on its Internet Explorer blog.

For enterprise IT staffers who don't want users in their organization to see these options, Microsoft today has made available a free downloadable Internet Explorer 7 Blocker Toolkit for deployment between now and the planned release of IE7 in the fourth quarter of this year. A detailed announcement and an FAQ on the Blocker Toolkit are available on Microsoft's TechNet site.

Source: PC World

[m.oreilly]

thank you for the warning sir

[stevenaxe]

IE7 is a huge improvement on IE6 every way. I don't care if they are going to make it a high priority or not. Everyone should download it, even if they don't use IE as their main browser, everyone has to use IE every once in a while.

Edited by stevenaxe, 27 July 2006 - 12:21 AM.

[Nvyseal]

Does anyone know if IE7 has a "revert to classic look"??

[simon]

I had to do this for a few customers that wanted the old Look

Edited by simon, 27 July 2006 - 03:34 AM.

[Nvyseal]

Thanks simon, thats a temp fix, but doesn't IE7 have it built in?

[simon]

not that I could see... I did find a news articlethat stops his update until 2009 its by microsoft