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“Microsoft takes its commitment to help protect the entire Windows ecosystem seriously, and we’re taking a step to help make consumers safer online. We feel the security enhancements to Internet Explorer 7 are significant enough that it should be available as broadly as possible, and this means making it available to all users of IE 7-compatible Windows operating systems,” Steve Reynolds, program manager for Microsoft, based in Redmond, Wash., told eWEEK.
“With today’s Installation and Availability Update, IE 7 installation will no longer require Windows Genuine Advantage validation, and will be available to all Windows XP users,” he said.
So those IE6 users get on the ball and upgrade your copy of Internet Explorer right away and enjoy tabbed browsing and better website rendering.
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There is currently at least one class action lawsuit against Microsoft, in case you missed it. The gist of the complaint states that Microsoft misled users in delivering WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) to computers while “hiding” it under a bunch of monthly updates that included critical security patches. The suit demands that Microsoft deletes all of the collected data of WGA and give users an opportunity to remove the software from their computers as well as damages. I’m not going to get in to a piracy debate. Simply put, Microsoft has the right to prevent you from stealing their software. How they are going about it here, in my opinion completely lacks good taste, and they lose some serious points on style.
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