Microsoft slowly begins IE 7 auto-upgrade
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft has slowly begun shipping automatic updates of Internet Explorer 7 to all users of the English language version of the browser.
Microsoft had rolled out automatic updates of the new browser to beta testers, beginning shortly after IE 7's Oct. 18 launch, but it had been telling the rest of IE 6 users to be ready for these updates, effective Nov. 1.
In fact, these automatic updates started going out a few days ago, said Gary Schare, a director of product management with the IE team. "On Wednesday of this week, we began a very slow distribution through automatic updates, throttled way down so a very few users would see it." Microsoft has been sending the updates to 1 percent of English language IE 6 users -- about one million PCs -- per day, Schare said.