
Gee.
That's an incredibly bad idea...
Microsoft will start injecting Internet Explorer 8 into large organizations through its Windows Server Update Services beginning at the end of August. The latest edition of Microsoft's browser will be available for download through WSUS as part of an update roll-out from August 25, Microsoft has said. WSUS lets system …
Oh good. Corps don't have to install IE8. That way their huge intranet that was foolishly designed and developed years ago in a way that would only work right in IE6 won't have to be rewritten just yet.
Frankly, I think Microsoft should force the download and install. :)
WSUS makes it ludicrously easy to block installation of IE8 - simply don't approve it.
On the other hand, it would be very convenient if I could roll it out now, should I want to, rather than suffer from the wonderful mix of IE 6, 7 and 8 that the company has (I don't want to deploy IE7 to everyone now, that would be pointless).
I know I can deploy a customised install via Group Policy, but that's not the ideal way of doing it...
*sigh*
Haven't most consumers basically upgraded to IE8 even if they've not realised. I just don't see what those adverts are trying to do, or who they're trying to sell to.
If they'd wanted to do PSA type adverts then they really needed to enlist Mr Cholmondley-Warner, then they might at least have been funny rather than just disturbing.
... from a bunch of impotent corporate suits doing their best, albeit pitiful, imitation of real people and how they think. Too bad their very best is still a laughable Microsoft "Group Think"*. The same kind of group think among the anointed at NASA that doomed the shuttle Challenger.
This crap will never do what Microsoft wants it to do, but then they'll never know it. They'll just have a celebration, congratulate themselves all over again and thereby continue the process of failure without knowing.
* In non corporate terms, "Group Think" = "Cluster F**k"
... MS would have worked out how to get IE updated on its own fricking OS while still leaving the user with a working copy of IE 6 (for compatibility reasons) by now but, oh no, here we all are stuck with a complete dog turd of a browser just so our corp can continue to be based back in the dark days of the 90s. What a bunch of wankers.