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We have received a bunch of questions about the Automatic Updates (AU) distribution process for IE7 and the worldwide rollout over AU. Here are some facts that hope will answer some of those questions.
Prior to starting general AU distribution to IE6 users, IE7 was available via the IE site for several weeks. This brought IE7 to a wider range of users than the beta and enabled us to watch for any issues. The initial rollout went well and we continue to monitor customer feedback through many channels.
We have now slowly started general AU distribution of IE7 in English, and this will continue over the next few months. For localized versions, we plan to follow this same approach of first releasing to the IE site followed by AU distribution several weeks later. A number of already-released European languages are next to start AU distribution and customers using these languages should be ready by November 15th.
Don’t be surprised if you see AU distribute new updates for Windows in November, but don’t see IE7. The rate of delivery and when IE7 reaches you will be based on several factors including the release of other higher priority updates and support call volume. You may have IE7 delivered by AU at any time over the next few months. Of course you can go to the Windows Update website and get it whenever you wish.
Finally, the other big question I am seeing is about the rollout schedule for Japan. Specifically, why isn’t the Japanese market receiving IE7 via AU until this spring? The Japanese market faced unique challenges due to their highly decentralized IT organizations. Our customers and partners in Japan told us this added to the time required to get ready for IE7. We listened to them and decided to hold off AU distribution in Japan until further readiness activities could be completed. Simply put, Japan faced challenges that we did not see in the North American or European markets. In the mean time users in all markets can download IE7 in all the languages we’ve released.
We recently posted Readiness Dates by language on TechNet.
One last thing, I want to reiterate that users will not be forced to accept IE7 nor will we silently install IE7. As we’ve blogged before, users will see a dialog box offering IE7. Users can choose “Install”, “Don’t Install”, or “Ask me later”.
Tony Chor
Group Program Manager
Comments
Anonymous
November 13, 2006
Does anyone know if the same registry key works for disabling the automatic deployment of IE7 on the localized versions? We a have a free utility that enables, or disables for the user and want to make sure it works on these versions of IE.Anonymous
November 13, 2006
I agree not to force users to install a new version of the browser. It feels misleading though when it appears as a "priority" or "urgent" update. Users will fear not updating. IE7 is a great work with only ECMA 4 compliant scripting missing. Congradulations ona work that leaves me with only two issues. Considering all IE7 does you have done an amazing job!Anonymous
November 13, 2006
hmmm...ie7...open a couple embeded movies in 2 tabs...and it crashes after a few seconds(ram changed twice)... open a new internet explorer process or maybe even 3...it runs them without a problem. when is that getting fixedAnonymous
November 13, 2006
The problem as I see it is with it being defined as a Critical Install. It isn't and shouldn't be marked as such. Normal users will install critical updates even if they don't need to and it may be risky for them.
As an example of the "risk" aspect, I have in fact a problem that I didn't have with the Betas. Often when I startup IE7 (with a pre-set 6 tabs including one that requires authentication) it starts loading the first tab (which is displayed) but then the IE process zooms up to 100% usage and stays there (and all the tabs are showing "Connecting To" and clicking anywhere gives beeps). Delete the process and re-start and it loads OK.
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November 13, 2006
i have a problem seeing some pictures since i have downloaded IE 7. some pictures are blocked with a X on top corner. clicked 'show picture' but nothing happens. is there a way to fix it? please.Anonymous
November 13, 2006
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November 13, 2006
PLEASE FIX THE SCROLLING!!!!!!!! Just installed IE7 and have jerky scrolling on every webpage - THIS IS HIGHLY IRRITATING.Anonymous
November 13, 2006
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November 13, 2006
Mark McNally Experience has shown us that you have to uninstall ZoneAlarm, not just disable it.Anonymous
November 14, 2006
Too registry problems, toolbar & plugin incompatibilities, Outlook & Office problems, desktop icons problems, just see this: http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?pg=1&guid=&sloc=en-us&dg=microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general&fltr= By the way IE7 is far away better than IE6, near the hanging FF2... and its working very well for me.Anonymous
November 14, 2006
@Mark McNally With Zonealarm on your computer anything can happen !!Anonymous
November 14, 2006
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November 14, 2006
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November 14, 2006
But I don't wanna have to uninstall :-(, lol.Anonymous
November 14, 2006
Is anybody seeing a problem with having too many windows open? When I have several windows open, IE7 will refuse to open a new window, right click is disabled, etc. Once i clse a window, I can open a new one, but it seems to get smaller and smaller. For example, have 8 windows open, try to open the 9th, can't do it...close a couple of windows, and it works again. Then in a few minutes I can't open the 8th window...then the 7th...then the 6th. It's very annoying and I can't find anything written about it anywhere. Thoughts? Only started to happen on install of ie7, and is happening on two computers.Anonymous
November 14, 2006
"Frankly, it would severe you right if they all just get hold of a cracked version of Vista." You seriously think companies will install an illegal version of Vista and risk their entire business? Right... They already told you that the customers they refer to are decentralized, as in you can't install something remotely.Anonymous
November 14, 2006
Installed IE7 on home PC with no problems. Installed on work PC and IE7 will only display security warnings. When I try to go any sites IE crashes. Using XP. Anybody have thoughts?Anonymous
November 14, 2006
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November 14, 2006
I don't know if this problem has been posted already somethere ... IE ignores position definitions for anchors in a website. See: http://blog.divnull.net/2006-11-14/internet-explorer-7-css-problem/Anonymous
November 14, 2006
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November 14, 2006
What is wrong with 7? All day long I have gotten call after call that no one can use their company web sites. PDF files wont open, images wont display forms wont accept data. I am forced to issue a mutli company memo to turn off auto updates until this buggy version is corrected. Why do you continue to deliver things that do not function correctly with the capital you have? What is R&D doing out there folks? These web sites are not coded wrong either. Thank you - EQAnonymous
November 14, 2006
"These web sites are not coded wrong either." That's a bold statement.Anonymous
November 14, 2006
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November 14, 2006
I installed me7 on nov.12 and have not been able to print as printer spooler service is not running. In fact my printer is no longer on the printer faxes folder Have tried to restart this through Computer manager without success. I've since removed me7 and also am unable to use restore as all points previous to nov12 are not there . Great upgrade!!!Anonymous
November 14, 2006
My wife was tricked into downloading this so called upgrade. IE 7 is horrible. Now I have to go through the trouble of removing it and adding IE 6 back. I'm considering a switch to NetScape or another browser. That's how much I've hated my first day with this lousy product.Anonymous
November 14, 2006
I suspect you will get hundreds more angry people over the AU of IE7. There must be tons of add-ins that wreck havoc with IE7 but probably also a ton of spyware programs and other malware that people are unaware that are running on their computers. The fact that so much people complain one installations of IE7 shows that many of those issues suurounding 3rd party software or malware aren't solved properly yet.Anonymous
November 15, 2006
I'm saddened so many people are seeing issues. Sure, I have had issues during the betas, but nothing as severe as people here seem to be experiencing. Adam, if I were you, I'd try customizing IE first, you might be able to change it so that you'll like it better (disabling tabbed browsing?) Ron, I've seen your issue in IE6, but only when I was very low on available memory - could this be an issue? Perhaps increasing the size of your pagefile would help?
Out of sheer curiosity, in what way are automatic updates going to affect me? I'm using a Dutch version of XPSP2, using an English IE7, and I'm not feeling the need to switch languages. Will I see an automatic update for the Dutch version, even though I've manually installed the English one?
Anonymous
November 15, 2006
we have discovered that the HP Director software does not work after installing IE7. i tested it again today (11-15-06) and the issue still exists. our accounting staff are required to scan documents daily, so i am prohibited from download IE7 until this issue is fixed. anybody see a resolution coming soon? you can email me at debi@tamu.edu or call me at 979-862-1014. thanks, AggieDebiAnonymous
November 15, 2006
Firefox is, in my opinion, inferior to IE 6. Why did Microsoft follow THEIR lead and turn IE 7 into a faux Firefox? The home page screen is now almost indistingushable from Firefox's at first glance. I hate IE 7. From the links for favorites, etc being pictures instead of words to the cheap imitative nature of it. Wish I knew how to get rid of IE 7 and reinstall IE 6. I am not a pro-- but is this easy enough to do? If so, pls e mail me at ssfahrer@yahoo.com. Thanks!Anonymous
November 15, 2006
AU ran when I shut down my PC last night (14th Nov 2006). Tonight, I boot up and the first thing I see is two exceptions in svchost. I can't run AU manually, my sound card is disabled/driver corrupted and my taskbar is corrupted/colours all messed up. Don't you love Miscrosoft? I'm seriously considering turning off AU.Anonymous
November 15, 2006
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November 15, 2006
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November 16, 2006
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November 16, 2006
Thanks for the updated AU release timeline, but I still wonder when will you ship IE7 in Chinese for manual download. Regarding east asian languages, Japanese and Korean versions of IE7 have been released by now, left Chinese alone.Anonymous
November 19, 2006
There's definetely something wrong with scrolling and CPU usage on some pages with heavy animated image content. The frames per second of animated images are not stable, sometimes they go fast sometimes really slow. This is with only IE7 running in clean Vista and no addons running.Anonymous
November 19, 2006
after upgrade to IE7 Icons change to a blue " e " ??? And HP scanner director software will not work ??Anonymous
November 20, 2006
There's definetely something wrong with scrolling and CPU usage on some pages with heavy animated image content. The frames per second of animated images are not stable, sometimes they go fast sometimes really slow. This is with only IE7 running in clean Vista and no addons running.Anonymous
November 20, 2006
http://translate.google.com/translate?u … uage_tools http://www.pconline.com.cn/news/nw/0611/908750.html It would seem that Microsoft is just out of touch with the Political and Market situation in China!Anonymous
November 20, 2006
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pconline.com.cn%2Fnews%2Fnw%2F0611%2F908750.html&langpair=zh-CN%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_toolsAnonymous
November 21, 2006
The only complaint I have about IE7: During installation there is a point when it appears the install process has crashed. There is no cursor activity or other indication it is busy doing something. Every piece of software has a learning curve, once I started down the back side of the curve I was very impressed with the features now provided with IE7. The one feature I use most is the dev toolbar. I used to be a big ford fan but after I tried a chevy I havent looked back. PS: Learn how to use a computer, Then Learn the software, Then complain about it.Anonymous
November 21, 2006
The Finnish version of IE7 came to my WSUS3b2 today, and it was auto-approved for installation to clients. The big surprise was that the WSUS-install was not silent as stated, but instead asked the user to agree EULA, disable antivirus and validate the Windows - things that a corporate end user should never be asked or encouraged to do. Had no such problems with the English version that came earlier. Has anyone else had this or is there something wrong with my wsus? Immediately declined IE7 for now and waiting for a better behaving install. I'm not very pleased with this kind of releases!Anonymous
November 22, 2006
What I don't understand is why MS pushes IE7 when it's not fully finished yet. I have IE6 on XP English with two MUI packs (spanish and german) installed. Those users now have the english UI in IE7 and have difficulties to use IE. Why not wait with the automatic update until the MUI packs are finished? And why does it take so long to finish those MUIs if the texts are available (fully localized versions of IE7 are finished!)? I don't understand those decisions.Anonymous
November 23, 2006
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November 23, 2006
Please see http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6142_102-0.html?forumID=32&threadID=218677&messageID=2323867 The said blocker was gone. User need to re-activate the value to block it.