Microsoft Corp. has warned corporate administrators that it will push a new version of Internet Explorer 7 their way next month, and has posted guidelines on how to ward off the automatic update if they want to keep the older IE6 browser on their companies' machines.
The IE7 upgrade scheduled to roll out via WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) on Feb. 12 was announced last October, when Microsoft said it would no longer require users to prove they owned a legitimate copy of Windows XP before they were allowed to download the newer browser. Microsoft explained that the move was prompted by security concerns.
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The IE7 upgrade scheduled to roll out via WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) on Feb. 12 was announced last October, when Microsoft said it would no longer require users to prove they owned a legitimate copy of Windows XP before they were allowed to download the newer browser. Microsoft explained that the move was prompted by security concerns.
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so you are saying that they should force ie7 on companies? whether or not their intraweb is compatible with it? good thinking, sherlock
Where I work, we have a lot of computer users that are forced to use a web application that we develop, and although we (the dev team) use IE7, a lot of the users are completely computer illiterate. We get at least one phone call a day from a user of our App telling us that the fact that there is a new feature has completely shattered their ability to use the system, and we can't even begin to imagine what would happen if we forced a new interface to their 'internet' on them, so until we can convince everyone that IE7 is a good thing, we will be sticking with IE6.
That's the dumbest thing i've heard so far today.. And you've obviously never worked in a corporate network.
Its not so much dumb as it is unrealistic. And it is unrealistic because the average corporate network is filled with the stupidest people you'll hope you ever have the misfortune of interacting with.
Its not so much dumb as it is unrealistic. And it is unrealistic because the average corporate network is filled with the stupidest people you'll hope you ever have the misfortune of interacting with.
All of the above. Dumb, unrealistic, stupid people, etc......
WILL NOT be installing it here. In fact, just recently removed it from all 7 machines after checking it out again and remembering why I didn't like it the first time!
You do understand there are companies where a lot of applications are dependent on certain revisions of browsers right? Migrating those applications is not simple, it's time consuming and a lot of testing has to be done.
That's the dumbest thing i've heard so far today.. And you've obviously never worked in a corporate network.
I'll give you a simple example - When I upgrade my home pc's to IE7 my dad got ****ed off the first day why this "new" program is here and his old trusted browser was gone! He had a big trouble in the first day finding his favorites and surfing to the sites he is used to. Without me going with him step by step and explaining everything all over again that nothing is changed and IE7 is just an upgrade and even the new features are useful (he was lost using tabs and always kept opening new window instead). and explaining how to reach his favorites again.
So take this single case and multiply it by hundreds and good luck explaining to every single person how to get used to using the new version.
Its not so much dumb as it is unrealistic. And it is unrealistic because the average corporate network is filled with the stupidest people you'll hope you ever have the misfortune of interacting with.
lol...You're spot on.
hmm....maybe Matt T is one of them people.
I think it should be optional, most of the corporate companys here dont have software they run supporting ie7
Tight Line's
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I work for a Toyota dealer, and I see this everyday. Toyota is using an outdated JRE ( 1.2.2 ) while the rest of the world is on either 5 or 6. This is because a major web application that they use isn't supported by the newer safer JRE. It sucks because it causes problems with HP printers and you can't use Firefox.
But, on topic, we use a different drawing management tool here for our projects and the IE7 update killed the built in viewer for it. Fortunately, we were able to find out the problem and fixed it with a couple of renamed dll files. We were lucky that is all IE7 broke.
If you ask me, IE6 needs to go away. The faster the better. It's a terrible piece of crap.
Unfortunately, companies don't see it that (at least managers don't). It's easier to do nothing (my company is in the same boat...entire roll out of IE7 stalled because of one app).
Except corporates couldn't care less about your opinion. What they see is:
Browser is used to run required application. It works fine. Tech guys come along and say that there is a new "better" version of browser that breaks application and it'll take X man days costing Y thousands to fix it. Management doesn't see this new version as better as it costs to implement it and remain in the same state, whereas not implementing it costs nothing.
Where money and productivity is concerned $0 far outweighs $20,000 for no real difference.
We had been staying away from it, because of issues that supposedly may happen. Well, I haven't read about any issues, and the few who have been using IE7 haven't mentioned any issues, so it seems safe enough.
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