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Originally Posted by pilotbob
What I can't understand is why MS doesn't treat IE6 as a virus. IE8 should be a CRITICAL level update at this point for anyone still running IE6. This is the part to me that is unforgivable... not the fact that they created IE6... heck WHEN did that come out? Long before XHTML/CSS2 and some of the more recent minimum versions that are considered acceptable these days if I recall correctly.
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They're
trying to do just that. If you have Automatic Updates turned on, IE 7 is pushed out to you as a critical security patch, and I believe IE 8 is next in line once you have IE 7.
Unfortunately, not everyone uses Automatic Update. We got burned by that years back at a prior employer, when we got hit by a nasty virus that got in via machines that weren't at current patch levels. If everything had been at current patch levels, the virus would never have gotten in. We turned on Windows Update for everyone shortly after.
But we ran our own WSUS server, and pushed updates out locally. Some things like IE 7 didn't get pushed out immediately over compatibility concerns. For instance, we used an electronic timesheet system tied to our accounting package, and accessed via IE. There was much concern that that would work under IE 7, as people wanted to be paid.
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Dennis