Spyware, viruses, & security : Microsoft disables automatic IE 8 downloads

Microsoft disables automatic IE 8 downloads

by Marianna Schmudlach  - 1/7/09 11:03 AM

It's for your own good

By Gavin Clarke in San Francisco

7th January 2009

Microsoft will cushion you from the Internet Explorer 8 standards mess with software to prevent automatic download of its next browser to your machine.

The company has released an IE8 Blocker Toolkit that will stop users installing IE8 via its Automatic Update service before compatibility testing has been finished.

Microsoft's IE8 Blocker Toolkit will prevent Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 users from getting IE8 as a "high priority" and those on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 getting IE 8 as an "important update." Instead, IE 8 will arrive as an optional install.

More: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/07/internet_explorer_8_blocker/