IE Automatic Component Activation Preview #2 Now Available
The second optional preview for the Internet Explorer Automatic Component Activation is available. This preview is compatible with the February IE Cumulative Update package. As announced earlier on this blog, the final behavior will be widely distributed in the April 2008 Internet Explorer Cumulative Update where all customers who install the update will get the change. Read Knowledge Base article 947518 for full details along with links to the specific downloads for each operating system.
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PEte LePage
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Anonymous
February 13, 2008
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February 13, 2008
Great! I've been using Vista SP1 for a few days now and it's incredible how a small thing as the lack of "Click to activate" can make browsing experience with IE so much less annoying. Thank you.Anonymous
February 13, 2008
Will IE6SP1 obtain this functionality in April 2008?Anonymous
February 13, 2008
Great! Is it gonna be available to IE6 for Windows 2000? Have a good day, E.Anonymous
February 14, 2008
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February 14, 2008
@ti and Esteban There's no need for any IE ACA update on Windows 2000 since it hasn't been affected on the EOLAS "patent" dispute based change at all. Bye, FreudiAnonymous
February 14, 2008
Can you kindly pass on the following to the Windows / Update team. I find it extremely annoying that the ammount of CPU time that AutomaticUpdates consumes. Every month, I basically have to stop working while it runs all of the installation activities. Please ask them to put logic in the tool to throttle the CPU usage, or at least enough smarts to dolly down the usage if other apps are competing for it. thanks.Anonymous
February 14, 2008
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February 14, 2008
will this be a full re-install (new package) of IE or just an update?Anonymous
February 14, 2008
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February 14, 2008
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February 14, 2008
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February 14, 2008
@some guy The IE ACA update includes another version of mshtml.dll only. You need to have installed the present Cumulative Update for your IE to apply the IE ACA though. @Sharon Are you using any third-party personal firewall software? If true, have a look into the configuration of that one which is most likely blocking iexplore.exe to access "the internet". Bye, FreudiAnonymous
February 14, 2008
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February 14, 2008
@william, Why do people like you consistently feel the need to 'spam' other blog posts with the same old unrelated rants and complaints? This post is not related to IE8 per se, so your comment is completely irrelevant.Anonymous
February 15, 2008
Great! I've been using Vista SP1 for a few days now and it's incredible how a small thing as the lack of "Click to activate" can make browsing experience with IE so much less annoying. Thank you.Anonymous
February 15, 2008
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February 15, 2008
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February 16, 2008
@william & Mike Jones: There's an old saying that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. It was this very blog that raised huge backlash to the... "un-thought-out" naming of IE7 for Vista as "IE7+" it went against everything in software development and administration but somehow it made it to this blog as the "decided name". The massive, vocal response is what made the IE Team re-evaluate the name and drop the "+". I agree with Mike's #1, and #2, but as a member of the development community, to stay quiet when things are going so horribly wrong would not justify my disgust when IE8 is released, if it does not meet expectations. Its just like voting. If you don't vote, don't complain with who gets elected. I agree with everyone here asking for information. We have a vested interest in where IE is going. The only reason we aren't more vocal is that we are getting it for free. I can assure you if I was paying to develop on this platform, I would be expecting significant patches, and a roadmap, or I would be moving on. [/End Rant]Anonymous
February 16, 2008
I think you actually have to do it, rather than thinking up the idea.Anonymous
February 16, 2008
Is their a vista version or an iphone compatible version available?Anonymous
February 17, 2008
On my Japanese PC, after installing version 7, the key board input of "Yen" in the URL could not be done!!! YOU STUPID FOOL!!! Think well before you do anything!!! TOU STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Anonymous
February 17, 2008
@iPhoneapps I am pretty sure there will NEVER be an IE version for the iPhone! Apple has their own browser Safari, that currently far outpaces any development in IE (and even many aspects of other browsers) For mobile browsers, Safari, Opera & Firefox* appear to be the only realistic option at the moment. *Firefox has made some efforts in this direction, but I'm not fully versed on it so I'm not sure how strong their mobile offering is.Anonymous
February 17, 2008
@Victoria Firefox for mobile (or 'Minimo') did look promising. However, the lead developer appears to be stepping down from the project, so who knows what is in store for it now.Anonymous
February 17, 2008
This could be one of the gold mines for Vista applicationAnonymous
February 18, 2008
@Harvey Free? We aren't complaining because we are getting it for free. I cringe everytime I hear about how someone is having a problem with IE7 or even still hearing about IE6. That isn't what I consider FREE when you have to spend 20 minutes cleaning off the latest and greatest spyware, then I throw Firefox. Firefox is free, Internet Explorer is just a hassle.Anonymous
February 18, 2008
@william I wish I could have said it better myself! Taking 10 minutes to indulge us with information on what on earth is going on in the IE world is all it takes. 10 lousy minutes! Its as if we are asking them for the Cadbury's Caramilk Secret or something! 10 measly minutes.. to write anything about IE8. 10 minutes. You can squeeze that into a coffee break, its that easy. I can't believe we are forced to write here, because no one at Microsoft will take 10 minutes. Wow.Anonymous
February 19, 2008
@emma and william I agree too. This would be pathetically easy for them to do, and would be good if they'd even just tell us what they're hoping to get done. MS can add a disclaimer if they're so worried about people getting mad about discussed features not being in the final release. Something that says "All features discussed here are not guaranteed to be in the final release. Best efforts will be made towards getting all desired features in, but some may be cut in order to make a timely release date." Even if the bug tracking is locked up so that only MS employees can submit bugs, it would be better than nothing as we'd at least know what MS considers bugs and what is being done about them. Last I checked you're still losing market share even with your forced updates and installs. The silence hasn't helped you stop losing people so maybe it's time for a new policy. I know you've bragged in the past about the number of installs, but when it's forced on people that number means nothing if they use something else. @Mike Jones I will concede that this isn't the topic of this blog post, but when MS has given us no other options we have to use what we can. Plus there tends to be enough astro-turfing that if we don't complain loud and often someone less knowledgeable may come here and think IE is a great browser based on the turfing that happens on some posts.Anonymous
February 19, 2008
william - Where are the public bug tracking systems for Opera and Safari then?Anonymous
February 19, 2008
Can a moderator please remove ALL UNRELATED messages..Anonymous
February 19, 2008
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February 19, 2008
@Nate - those are facilities to LOG bugs, not track them. Where are the, as stated by the original poster, facilities to TRACK bugs? Yes, WebKit provide a bugzilla system, but Safari doesn't appear to. I'm not disagreeing that a public bug system for IE might be beneficial, what does get up my nose is when people make statements like "IE is the ONLY browser without a public bug tracking system." which are actually an utter fallacy.Anonymous
February 20, 2008
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February 20, 2008
@Rob, Well, if you bothered to look into it even on a superficial level, you'd see that a Bugzilla system has the ability to search, as well as "sign-up" to be notified of changes to the bug report (via email notifications). Also, you can, amazingly, VOTE for a bug. This is the weight given to the bug by, imagine this, CONCERNED CUSTOMERS. As for Safari, it's based upon Webkit. If you bothered to look, or be involved in cross-browser web development in any form, you'd already know that. This is where aour pain lies. I can teach a monkey to write DHTML for one browser. So, Rob, what gets up my nose are Microsoft fanboys that speak before they listen. Sheesh. BTW: For the record, I've been doing web cross-browser development since 1994 (yes, 14 years now), so I think I'm qualified to respond. Cheers! :)Anonymous
February 20, 2008
@Rob, Just going to second B. Cortez's statement, basically says everything I was going to except I can only claim web development going back to 1998. I would hope that 10 years in this field is enough to qualify too. Please research and learn before you come here and post, it will help us respect you more (since you're not just gonna post the same pro-MS garbage we've all heard before and know is untrue) and give us no reason to completely destroy everything you've said in such a blunt way. If you're actually knowledgeable about what you say and make good points we have to be knowledgeable and make good points too if you're wrong or we'll have acknowledge that there's good stuff in your post.Anonymous
February 20, 2008
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February 21, 2008
Nice blog )))) very much intresting post, wait continuation...Anonymous
February 21, 2008
@emma hmmmm 10 minutes has surely passed by now? I guess the IE team is too busy for the rest of the world. Lets just hope it is because they've finally fixed the DOM!Anonymous
February 24, 2008
Can you kindly pass on the following to the Windows / Update team. I find it extremely annoying that the ammount of CPU time that AutomaticUpdates consumes. Every month, I basically have to stop working while it runs all of the installation activities. Please ask them to put logic in the tool to throttle the CPU usage, or at least enough smarts to dolly down the usage if other apps are competing for it. thanks.Anonymous
July 01, 2008
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July 06, 2008
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