Thursday, September 23, 2004

Microsoft To Provide IE Patches for Windows XP Only

Microsoft To Provide IE Patches for Windows XP Only
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Posted by michael on Thursday September 23, @10:24AM
from the lucy-pulls-football-away-again-from-windows-users dept.
Fortunato_NC writes "Microsoft has decided that future IE updates, including those related to security, will only be available to customers using Windows XP. This news.com article has the complete scoop. A choice quote: 'Microsoft may be turning the lemons of its browser's security reputation into the lemonade of a powerful upgrade selling point.' This should provide a huge boost to Mozilla and other alternative browser backers."

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1:26:21 PM    

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