[EIDXA] XP and IE 8.x

[Joe Hetrick]

There is that, and there is also an IE Blocker tool available from Microsoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21687628-5806-4ba6-9e4e-8e224ec6dd8c&displaylang=en

I will point out that I deployed IE8 to a couple hundred machines at work and didn't have any functional complaints by the faculty/staff we support.

I was forced to deploy the block because the U utilizes Microsoft web-creation/content management software which assumes specific features from IE.  Once we were certain that all of the U's internal content were visible and functional with IE8, we unleashed it upon the masses with very little fanfare, other than the annoying changes to the layout, which confused the users.

Installing FireFox won't stop MS Update from trying to push IE8 every Patch Tuesday, and in the past, Microsoft has eventually revoked the prompts for a browser, and just put it on; it hasn't, that I recall, ever overridden the blocker tool (they've released one for XP Service Packs, IE7, and IE8).

My experience is that it's OK to follow M$ on almost all of their updates (amazingly) and you only really get into trouble in two instances: being on the ground floor of a browser update (IE8 has been out for months), and, being very far behind in updates, period.

I'd still use firefox when I could, and reserve IE for those pesky sites that assume that is the browser your using.  Firefox has many useful plug-ins (ad blocker, pop up blockers, several ham-related plugins--N0HR has a nice Sunspot plugin, for example).

Joe, KC0VKN

On Jan 8, 2010, at 6:35 PM, Rick Hadley wrote:

> Running Firerfox 3.5 prevents all those problems.
> 
> Rick, W0FG
> 
> On 1/8/10, Arlyce and Mike Nowack <mnowack at adams.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> A few months back I inadvertently allowed Microsoft to upgrade my browser
>> to
>> v8.x on my main desktop running XP.  After that I had several problems, the
>> most annoying was that after the upgrade two of my applications could not
>> remember the passwords I had established for each application.  Most used
>> of
>> the two was Dreamweaver which could no longer store and remember the
>> password to access the server on which the webpage I maintain was kept.  I
>> had to reset the url and password every time I used Dreamweaver to update
>> the remote site.  Very frustrating.  After several weeks of trying to
>> figure
>> out what was going on I found the clue on the Dreamweaver users' group
>> site.
>> I unloaded IE8.x and reinstalled IE7.x and all returned to normal.
>> 
>> Now I'm getting weary of having to deny the upgrade to IE8.x that MS
>> continues to try and force on me.  Every time there are XP upgrades to
>> download I have to go to manual installation and uncheck the Upgrade to
>> IE8.x box   UGH!
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
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