Just got back to my desk from the Innovation Awards, and look what was waiting on my desktop:
That’s right, IE7 just downloaded automatically via Automatic Update.
Now the fun begins!
Just got back to my desk from the Innovation Awards, and look what was waiting on my desktop:
That’s right, IE7 just downloaded automatically via Automatic Update.
Now the fun begins!
8 responses to “The big day is upon us”
Go go feed subscriptions!Big day, indeed. You guys are going to be busy today!
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.
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.
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…
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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