Microsoft lurer IE7 på PC'er til folk

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For some people who ran Microsoft's January 2007 security and products updates, including me, clicking on the familiar gold shield icon was not much different from getting suckered into opening an e-mail message infected with a virus or a worm Trojan.

 

That's because unless you checked before you clicked, you were unwittingly giving permission for Microsoft to install Internet Explorer 7.0. And in too many cases, users are experiencing application crashes or Web site incompatibilities that are rendering IE 7 and your computer useless for Web browsing.

 

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2086423,00.asp

 

 

haha?

Idiot should have checked what he's downloading rather than blindy accepting whatever.

 

 

 

He got IE7 through the security update feature of Windows, and as there are a great amount of updates people don't usually check every single one. Luring IE7 onto people PCs as a "Security Update" is considered malware practice. Only this time you don't pay for it by browsing history and pop-up ads, you pay for it by strenghtening Microsofts monopoly and when you buy a new PC it will have Vista bundled.

 

I'm still waiting for an EU ruling forcing Microsoft to remove most full-featured applications from Windows so people can buy them over disk or Internet and actually have a choice. An ability to download and buy them from Windows Update should be removed, incase Microsoft would be bundling an "Windows Catalog" like thing. Microsoft has proven themselves untrustworthy and everyone should have equal chance. Linux and Mac is bundling lots of programs, but they don't have 50% market share or more (monopoly), yet.