Re: IE7 is missing from WU and MU websites???

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Perhaps this is why :
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/10/04/internet-explorer-7-update.aspx

Because Microsoft takes its commitment to help protect the entire Windows ecosystem seriously, we’re updating the IE7 installation experience to make it available as broadly as possible to all Windows users. With today’s “Installation and Availability Update,” Internet Explorer 7 installation will no longer require Windows Genuine Advantage validation and will be available to all Windows XP users.

It's being UN-WGA'ed. By 'available to all Windows XP users', does that mean XP RTM and SP1 ?
BTW, it is available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/default.mspx

Still no system requirements readily found on that page, either.


MowGreen [MVP 2003-2008]
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Ottmar Freudenberger wrote:

"OldRebel2" <OldRebel2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb:


I reformatted Friday and when I went to get updates for XP SP2, there were 84 high priority updates, but IE7 was NOT among them.


Yup, soon after the "re-release" of IE7 on October 4th (see
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/10/04/internet-explorer-7-update.aspx)
IE7 vanished from Windows/Microsoft/AutoUpdate and is still not offered
from there at the moment. Me thinks that's a temporary "issue" and we will
see IE7 there more or less soon and as silent as it vanished.

Bye,
Freudi
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