InternetExplorer finally responds automatically to the latest version from next year

It will be possible in all of Windows XP / Vista / 7 and will start from Australia and Brazil first from January 2012 and will automatically make IE version up through Windows Update. In addition, homepage setting, search provider settings, default web browser settings, etc. are not changed or initialized even if they are updated, and are kept as they are.

IE to Start Automatic Upgrades across Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7
http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2011/12/15/ie-to-start-automatic-upgrades-across-windows-xp-windows-vista-and-windows-7.aspx


According to the above Microsoft official blog, this decision of this time is to use the latest version in order to reduce the risk of infection to malware etc. as much as possible, to make sure that compatibility is not compromised even if updating, furthermore in the future In order to adopt web standards such as HTML 5 in IE 9 and later, it seems to be to stop the nonproductive act of writing the code to bother to support users who are still the old version of the browser.

Especially users who remain in IE 6 are the most disturbing entities both in terms of security and writing productive code and are present in Microsoft official to the site to eradicate IE 6 users as follows It is dealt with.

Internet Explorer 6 Countdown | Death to IE 6 | IE 6 Countdown
http://www.ie6countdown.com/


Looking at the above site, IE 6 users are only 1% in the US, while Japan is 6 times more than that 6.5% still IE 6 users exist and you can see that it is quite late.


Although 8.9% in Korea and 27.9% in China, there are downs further down ... ....


Somehow somehow IE6 users do not decrease and why has turned "increase" why is the feeling of crisis around this one part of Microsoft's decision this time? I can guess.


As for this announcement this time, it may feel like "IE 9 is displayed on Windows Update, but what is different from Sole?" In short, "As with various patches of Windows Update, you can quickly and quietly update and it will not be like installing independent software like you have been"about it. In other words, there will be no dialogue options such as "yes" or "no" come up, so anyone can update it smoothly.

However, according to the Microsoft official blog, it is also true that there is a voice saying "It will be troubled if compulsory automatic update is forcibly done by both companies and individuals", and for the time being, the automatic update function to this latest version is It is also possible to turn it off if you wish, and there are also options to go back to the previous version after updating to the latest version.