IE to Start Automatic Upgrades across Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7
This has to be the best news I have read today.
Today we are sharing our plan to automatically upgrade Windows customers to the latest version of Internet Explorer available for their PC. This is an important step in helping to move the Web forward. We will start in January for customers in Australia and Brazil who have turned on automatic updating via Windows Update. Similar to our release of IE9 earlier this year, we will take a measured approach, scaling up over time.
As always, when upgrading from one version of Internet Explorer to the next through Windows Update, the user’s home page, search provider, and default browser remains unchanged. – Ryan Gavin General Manager, Internet Explorer Business and Marketing.
Developers constantly struggle with different browser versions and limits them to push the web technology. With only one IE to worry about in the future more energy can directed towards R&D on one browser instead of writing many adaptation of scripts to support all the browser versions. QA time will be cut down tremendously. More info can be found at the windows blog.
