full-disclosure - Re: [inbox] Re: MS are doing Windows Updates for XP to IE7

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Message-ID: <NMEAJDJMDLJLOIOCIKJJIEOEHIAA.exibar@thelair.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:12:44 -0500
From: "Exibar" <exibar@...lair.com>
To: <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu>,
	<nick@...us-l.demon.co.uk>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: [inbox] Re: MS are doing Windows Updates for
	XP to IE7

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@...edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu]
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 7:26 PM
> To: nick@...us-l.demon.co.uk
> Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.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. If
> you've got it
> > > set to download-and-install at 3AM every Wednesday morning,
> you may be in for
> > > a 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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