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Microsoft apparently can't do that because of all those corporate customers which depend on subtle behaviors of a particular IE version they have apps developed
by amaks 13y ago
Microsoft apparently can't do that because of all those corporate customers which depend on subtle behaviors of a particular IE version they have apps developed against. This is a vicious cycle. Auto-update would work if it was the case from the very beginning.
- emn13 13y agoSure they can - just like chrome and FF can: you just add an option to turn it off. IE has that option already.
- amaks 13y agoInteresting. So, perhaps, it's because IE update usually requires OS restart and Administrative privileges when Chrome for example doesn't.
- yuhong 13y agoI think they provide "blocker toolkits" with registry keys so Windows Update offers security updates for the current version of IE instead (all versions of IE follows the support lifecycle of the Windows version it is installed on).