This has been the case for the previous few IE versions too. There is a tool to block automatic deployment, mostly meant for corporate environments where you pr

This has been the case for the previous few IE versions too. There is a tool to block automatic deployment, mostly meant for corporate environments where you probably first need to test all your intranet apps. It won't reach those who don't update their Windows, though. And that's probably a large part of users who are still on older IE versions.