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August 11th, 2009
Microsoft to roll out IE 8 with new defaults on Patch Tuesday
Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 5:14 am
On August 11, amid the myriad patches and updates that Microsoft will roll out to users as part of this month’s Patch Tuesday bundle, there will be a new version of Internet Explorer (IE) 8 that includes different default-installation settings.
Microsoft officials publicly acknowledged the planned setting changes in mid-July via a posting to the company’s IE Blog. The new and clearer installation settings will affect only those XP, Vista and Windows 7 users who have not set IE as their default browser.
As a number of Microsoft competitors – as well as the U.S. antitrust regulators – have noted, Microsoft didn’t make it clear that using the “Express Settings” default during installation automatically reset the browser default to IE 8. Users had to know enough to “choose custom settings” if they didn’t want IE 8 made automatically their default browser.
Microsoft officials said at the time that this installation-default change would be part of the next cumulative security update for IE in mid-August.
Detailed information at:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3695
Microsoft to roll out IE 8 with new defaults on Patch Tuesday
Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 5:14 am
On August 11, amid the myriad patches and updates that Microsoft will roll out to users as part of this month’s Patch Tuesday bundle, there will be a new version of Internet Explorer (IE) 8 that includes different default-installation settings.
Microsoft officials publicly acknowledged the planned setting changes in mid-July via a posting to the company’s IE Blog. The new and clearer installation settings will affect only those XP, Vista and Windows 7 users who have not set IE as their default browser.
As a number of Microsoft competitors – as well as the U.S. antitrust regulators – have noted, Microsoft didn’t make it clear that using the “Express Settings” default during installation automatically reset the browser default to IE 8. Users had to know enough to “choose custom settings” if they didn’t want IE 8 made automatically their default browser.
Microsoft officials said at the time that this installation-default change would be part of the next cumulative security update for IE in mid-August.
Detailed information at:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3695