Microsoft Removes WGA from IE7

[wipeout140]

Because Microsoft takes its commitment to help protect the entire Windows ecosystem seriously, we’re updating the IE7 installation experience to make it available as broadly as possible to all Windows users. With today’s “Installation and Availability Update,” Internet Explorer 7 installation will no longer require Windows Genuine Advantage validation and will be available to all Windows XP users. If you are not already running IE7, you can get it now from the Internet Explorer home page on Microsoft.com (http://www.microsoft.com/ie), get a customized version from a third-party site, or, if you haven’t already received it via Automatic Updates (http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/07/26/678149.aspx), this version will be delivered to you as we described previously.

IEBlog Post (http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/10/04/internet-explorer-7-update.aspx)

[FurryNemesis]

Do I smell desperation?

[Midwest-Linux]

People still use Internet Explorer???

[Raval]

Do I smell desperation?

Whats an IE7??? :lolflag:

[Midwest-Linux]

Whats an IE7??? :lolflag:

IE is a relic from the late 90's...I think...

[insane_alien]

i never knew that the abbreviation of 'in example' had 7 versions...

my uni has firefox, everything is well.

[FurryNemesis]

Mine doesn't. They're deploying Vista next year too. If I ever find our sysadmins...

[vishzilla]

MS bringing back IE from the dead!!!

[Raval]

IE is a relic from the late 90's...I think...

Oh yeah! now I remember it was one of the first model George Foreman Grills models.

[kulturloseramerikaner]

Oh yeah! now I remember it was one of the first model George Foreman Grills models.
Hey man, don't knock it, I've grilled many a tasty salmon steak on there...

[Tom Mann]

They've only done this cause some bright spark ;-) realised if they extracted the source file, copied an older version of update.exe into it, then run that update.exe they could install it without WGA anyway... Ha Ha! (NB: I only use Windows for my DAW now!)

[igknighted]

i never knew that the abbreviation of 'in example' had 7 versions...

my uni has firefox, everything is well.

LOL, "i.e." is short for the latin "id est", not "in example".

id est (i.e.) "that is" "That is (to say)", "in other words", or sometimes "in this case", depending on the context. Never equivalent to exempli gratia (e.g.).[1]

Id est, i.e., "that is", is commonly abbreviated "i.e."; in this usage it is sometimes followed by a comma, depending on style.[2]

You use "i.e." when your further explaining a point. Or in place of the words "in other words". If you are giving an example it isn't the proper abbreviation.

I believe you are confusing this with "exempli gratia" (e.g.), which means (basically) "for example"

[insane_alien]

my latin sucks Q.E.D. (now i KNOW that mean quod et demonstratum or something which basically means, as demonstrated.)

thanks for the correction. i don't use that much anyway so it has never come up. i hink i know more chinese than i do latin and i don't know very much chinese at all(i can say, 'hello', 'goodbye', 'i'll have a beer please', 'i'll have a ham sandwich please', and 'i had a threesome with your mother and a pygmy'(long story involving a drinking competition and a guy from bejing who said he was telling me how to say something else.))

[tgalati4]

I think the reason they did it so as to not alienate all the Windows Servers out there. If the IE base declines then web servers requiring IE will get less traffic. Companies that use Windows Servers will notice the decrease in traffic to their crummy IE-only webpages and growing popularity of open source networks and Linux servers.

It's kind of perverse, but you got to give cigarettes away to get people to smoke so they will buy more cigarettes. You got to give IE away so that more people will use IE-only websites.

[kulturloseramerikaner]

my latin sucks Q.E.D. (now i KNOW that mean quod et demonstratum or something which basically means, as demonstrated.)


Couldn't help it...
It translates more closely to "that which was to be shown."

[gwoodard]

Do I smell desperation?

Thats really funny man good line

[gwoodard]

Yea but now Im having problems it WGA on Xp Pro and Microsoft wants me to buy the "Genuine Advantage Kit" for 150 Dollars!

BTW I have never had trouble with Genuine crap before...for some reason I have a genuine copy but the computer is telling me I dont

I think it may be advertising or someone stole my keycode (yeah right)