Microsoft to Push IE8 as 'High Priority' Automatic Update
Microsoft to Push IE8 as 'High Priority' Automatic Update
Posted 04/14/2009 at 12:45pm
| by Paul Lilly
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If you haven't been impressed with Microsoft's latest browser -- or just haven't felt compelled to give IE8 a spin and kick its tires -- you're not alone. Despite a significant speed increase, better web compliance, and a handful of new features, IE8 hasn't been attracting the kind of response Microsoft had probably hoped for, at least not if market share data from Net Applications is any indication. At last count, IE8 made up for a little over 4 percent of the browser market share, taking away from IE7 at a conservative pace. The solution? Throw IE8 into the Automatic Update queue as a 'High Priority' update.
"Last week, we released IE8 via Automatic Update to users still running pre-release versions of IE8 (Beta 2 or Release Candidate 1). The goal was to make sure users who chose to install IE8 have the latest up-to-date version," Microsoft wrote in a blog post. "Starting on or about the third week of April, users still running IE6 or IE7 on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Server 2008 will get will get a notification through Automatic Update about IE8."
Microsoft went on to say that the rollout will start with a narrow audience and expand over time to include its entire userbase. IE8 will be labeled as an 'Important' update for those running Vista and Server 2008, and 'High Priority' for XP users. However, IE8 won't automatically install; users will still have to opt-in.
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Techrocket9
April 14, 2009 at 9:45pm
IE 8 hates McAfee Security. Salvation is avaliable at: http://tinyurl.com/Perpetual-Salvation
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steraes
April 14, 2009 at 1:49pm
I hate IE8. I have nothing but problems with it. It keeps crashing, slower than hell, and everytime I turn around, I have to fix my homepage setting. It is nothing but junk.
Taz0
April 14, 2009 at 4:38pm
Your last complaint hinted towards malware being the source of your problems, rather than IE8 itself.
IE8 is a welcome refresh to IE7. As a user of both IE8 and Firefox I can tell you it's pretty stable, slightly better than IE7 and on par with Firefox. It's slightly slower than Firefox, but speedy nonetheless, and it has no problems remembering my homepage. It has some new interesting features, some more useful than others, that will surely be adopted by Firefox in some flavor, as has been done by IE for some of Firefox's prominent features.
steraes
April 20, 2009 at 5:56am
I did not have any malware. I ran Super-AntiSpyware, plus my Comodo Internet Security, and I still had problems, plus I even tried Anti-Spyware Terminator, and still did not find malware.
jalford383
April 14, 2009 at 12:00pm
Sidnfrank
It would seem that Microsoft would do better working with the government! If you do not like the product we produce, then move and quit cryin.
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