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[News] [Rival] Microsoft IE Forcefeeding: Push Comes to Shove

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft IE Forcefeeding: Push Comes to Shove
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:16:11 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Microsoft to push WGA-free IE 7 update to corporate users in February

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| Microsoft made the IE release — known as the IE 7 Installation and 
| Availability Update — available  on its software download site in October  
| 2007. Microsoft did not push the update automatically to customers at that 
| time.  
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1114

Why can't Firefox and Opera be on automatic update too?

Here's some new excellent software in the making:

Spicebird Beta Moves Thunderbird Closer to Outlook Territory

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| The first public beta of Spicebird, an attempt to combine all of Mozilla's 
| productivity apps into one Outlook-like package, has been released, and from 
| first looks, its going to at least make fans of the already-converted 
| Thunderbird crowd.   
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http://lifehacker.com/344989/spicebird-beta-moves-thunderbird-closer-to-outlook-territory


Related:

IE7 Released As High-Priority Update

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| "Looks like FF2 is already outnumbering FF 1.5, while IE7 is having a
| hard time to find followers. Will today's release as a
| high-priority, force-fed update fix this issue?"
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http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/02/1424203&from=rss


Are you being served?

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| Like many Microsoft desktop users this week I clicked on the icon
| 'upgrade to Explorer 7'. Mistake. Outlook and Express disappeared.
| As did the Explorer multi-choice menu. Panic. Has it deleted all
| my emails?
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http://www.it-director.com/business/content.php?cid=9069&amp;ref=fd_itd


Microsoft to Push Silverlight via Redesigned Website

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| Microsoft isn't new to the whole "virtual" monopoly business (where a single 
| company holds the entire market thanks to "superior technology" and "better 
| business sense") - it's just not too often that they're on the wrong side of 
| this particular proverbial fence.   
| 
| When Silverlight was first announced and PopFly, Microsoft's social network 
| built to demonstrate and hopefully kickoff Silverlight, were simultaneously 
| launched; we were quick to appreciate the technical aspects of .NET and WPF 
| taken online, but were careful to make it clear that we didn't think it stood 
| much of a chance.    
| 
| But things might be on the verge of a big change. Large portions Microsoft's 
| website are in the middle of a redesign that will feature a fully 
| Silverlight-powered interface - doing away with HTML and everything else.  
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http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/redesigned-microsoft-website-to-use-silverlight/


IE 7 Cautionary Tale

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| After updating to the new browser, none of the computers
| could access QuickBooks, the CRM system or e-mail. The IT
| manager had to remotely administrator each machine, from
| the U.S. He turned back to a restore point a day earlier,
| undoing the chaos caused by IE 7.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/web_services_browser/ie_7_cautionary_tale.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/ycjw4k

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