The big day is upon us

Just got back to my desk from the Innovation Awards, and look what was waiting on my desktop:

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That’s right, IE7 just downloaded automatically via Automatic Update.

Now the fun begins!

8 responses to “The big day is upon us”

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    Go go feed subscriptions!Big day, indeed. You guys are going to be busy today!

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    The upgrade hung on my home computer. I eventually killed the process, but it's not clear what I'm actually running at this point. I had one of the RCs running so god knows what kind of cruft is lying around on my computer at this point.

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    Uh oh. What's anyone else seeing?Mine went smoothly – I'd had RC1 installed, and it properly uninstalled RC1, rebooted, installed IE and everything worked once complete. Sounds like I was lucky.

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    Mine *almost* hung — on reboot, I'd say it took about 20 minutes or so for it to finally come around. But it did…I was using RC3, I believe…

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    Internet Explorer 7 Released as Auto-Update…Internet Explorer 7 is now being pushed out as an automatic update… Hang onto your feed subscriptions, folks!……

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    […] However, some blogs (example) are reporting that IE7 is being pushed out TODAY as an automatic update. I haven’t seen anything from other news sources, but the issues below apply whenever the update occurs. Well, not completely automatic, as it appears to put a recommendation on the screen — with options Ask Me Later, Don’t Install and Install. […]

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    […] rick…thanks for pointing this out […]

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    […] hope this doesn’t ruin the week. 10/31/2006 1:01 AM | Tags: Microsoft, Software, Web | Trackback NoComments […]

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