Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 24th Jan 2008 22:38 UTC
There's been quite the noise on the internet that Microsoft would be supposedly forcing IE7 on customers via Windows Update. Ars dove into the issue, and hands out milk and cookies to everyone while explaining there's nothing to worry about. "They key to understanding what's happening in two weeks is WSUS. WSUS is not synonymous with Windows Update. WSUS is a management tool that works alongside Windows Update to allow IT admins to control how patches and updates are applied across a deployment. If you're an IT shop, run WSUS and have it configured to install update rollups, then you'll be getting IE7 that day. However, by default, WSUS is not set to automatically approve update roll-ups. Equally as important, users who aren't in tightly managed business environments (e.g., most users) will not wake up to find that Internet Explorer has been installed on their Windows XP SP2 systems without their say-so. Fret not: Microsoft isn't making you do it. They're not making anyone do it, not even WSUS users."
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RE[4]: IE6 needs to die
by sappyvcv on Sat 26th Jan 2008 02:54
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So what? Just put the meta tag into your web pages and be done with it. It's not as if your pages became non-standard with it.
While I agree that it is kind of absurd that Microsoft will force web designers to use a special meta tag just to have their pages rendered in standards mode, it is not as painful as some people say it is.