Auto Install of IE 7 Delayed In Japan

**TimSchroeder** · 11-04-2006, 08:50 PM

filenavigator writes "Microsoft has delayed the automatic install of IE 7 in Japan. There's an an interesting response in one of the MSDN blogs. IT pros are saying that they have done this because business users asked it to be delayed. It seems to me many business users here in North America wanted it to be delayed as well, but were forced to scramble and deploy IE 7 blocking software. This looks like more proof that the IE 7 automatic push was more for marketing reasons, than security. If it were a security issue, than why wait on the Japanese push?" Does anyone know the 'technical' reason that the autoinstall was delayed?

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**vangogh** · 11-04-2006, 09:25 PM

I tried installing IE7 when it first became available and it looked like it was going to be pretty good. It started crashing on me, but I think it's because I was trying something that was supposed to allow me to run multiple versions of IE on my laptop.

After that I decided I'll need to give up that multiple version thing and also decided to wait for the auto install. It started earlier this week (Wednesday I think) and my anit-virus shut down my computer after it ran a scan for no reason. It IE7 download was still going on and since then nothing. No notification to download again or install.

I've been wondering if it would start again and when. It's not a problem since I'm a Firefox user and have no plans on changing, but I'm curious to see if and when I finally get IE7 up and running.