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Re: Microsoft tags IE 7 'high priority' update

  • Subject: Re: Microsoft tags IE 7 'high priority' update
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:48:10 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / Manchester University
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__/ [ Ivan Groznii ] on Thursday 27 July 2006 12:47 \__

> 
> nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Quote:
>> --------------
>> IE 7 will be delivered in the fourth quarter as a "high priority"
>> update via Automatic Updates in Windows XP, Gary Schare, Microsoft's
>> director of IE product management, said in an interview Tuesday.
>> Automatic Updates is a Windows feature typically used for security
>> updates, but Microsoft has also used it to push its antipiracy tool WGA
>> Notifications.
>> -------------
>> End quote
>>
>>
> 
> I've tested it.  In a word, yuk -
> 
> http://www.linuxextremist.com/?p=52

Opera UI ripoff and Firefox feature ripoff. It's almost as bad as the
multitude of Web 2.0 copycats. Then again, come to consider how Internet
Explorer began: Netscape ripoff, then fraudulent tactics to elbow it out of
the way and derail its user base using non-standard 'HTML'.

Best wishes,

Roy

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