On August 11,
Windows 7 Serial, amid the myriad patches and updates that Microsoft will roll out to people as part of this month;s Patch Tuesday bundle, there might be a new version of World wide web Explorer (IE) eight that includes diverse default-installation settings.Microsoft officials publicly acknowledged the planned setting changes in mid-July via a posting to the firm;s IE Blog. The new and clearer set up settings will impact only these XP,
Microsoft Office 2010, Vista and Windows 7 end users who have not set IE as their default browser.As numerous Microsoft rivals – as well as the U.S. antitrust regulators – have noted,
Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft didn’t make it clear that using the “Express Settings” default during set up 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.Microsoft officials have chalked up the changes they are making to IE eight as being attributable towards the business;s desire for user choice and control. They haven;t mentioned publicly the direct and indirect roles that government regulators here in the U.S. and in Europe have played in the IE user-settings switch.Meanwhile, in other IE-related news, Microsoft officials are reiterating that the firm is not planning to drop support for the non-standards-compliant IE 6 browser, in spite of some public calls for the provider to do so. In an August 10 weblog posting,
Office 2010 Download, IE General Manager Dean Hachamovitch noted that a lot of corporations use IE 6 as the default browser on their intranets and are running applications that are built around IE 6.“Dropping support for IE6 is not an option because we committed to supporting the IE included with Windows for the lifespan of the product,
Windows 7 Activation,” Hachamovitch blogged.