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As was discussed earlier in the Windows Blog, the update to Internet Explorer 8 is more than a little troublesome. Have you had difficulty with this set of patches?
Sorry folks, I made an error when reading Microsoft's information; I thought that it was indicating the IE 8 release was added to the automatic updates system. This is *not* the case. Regardless, if you wish to make sure that IE 8 does not got through automatic updates, the information in the article is correct, just a bit early.
Sorry for any elevated heart rates I may have caused!
J.Ja
Sorry for any elevated heart rates I may have caused!
J.Ja
Here is a summary of the results from our ACL (application compatibility lab)
After loading the ChangeBase AOK application testing portfolio into a Patch Impact database, all seven patches were tested for application level issues and in addition, application dependencies. Only one update (MS09-014) raised a significant number of issues across a small number of applications across the ChangeBase Patch Testing Application portfolio.
Full results at http://www.changebase.com/news/news_release_2009_04_14.html
After loading the ChangeBase AOK application testing portfolio into a Patch Impact database, all seven patches were tested for application level issues and in addition, application dependencies. Only one update (MS09-014) raised a significant number of issues across a small number of applications across the ChangeBase Patch Testing Application portfolio.
Full results at http://www.changebase.com/news/news_release_2009_04_14.html
Be aware that installing Internet Explorer 8 is potentially highly dangerous! Some people just do not want IE8, so they need be aware that an Automatic install will put IE8 on their systems - or will try to when it becomes part of the patch scheme! Others will find that IE8 does not install properly and a few have reported that some systems are unrecoverable! 2 out of my 3 PCs, ostensibly the same, will load IE8 but the other doesn't and has to be rebuilt!
I have installed it on some of my test machines and all of my personal machines and like it better than IE 7. What problems are you folks experiencing?
I am viewing and responding to TR using IE 8. So far I am happy with it and glad I upgraded. I will most likely begin pushing it out to my desktops thru WSUS in the next few weeks.
... and then suddenly broke. I've been working with the engineers to get it straightened out.
J.Ja
J.Ja
When IE 8 installed itself, TechRepublic became inaccessible. TR still works fine in FireFox, though.
What is up with the hate over IE 8? I have it deployed on a few workstations and I have yet to see any problems.
I agree. I had far more problems with IE 7 that I am having with IE 8.
The problem generally occurs during installation. IE8 doesn't like certain toolbars and likes Windows to have all security patches in place before the installation of IE8 begins.
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=1032
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=1032
I did a clean install of XP Pro SP2 just this week and even before joining the computer to our SBS2003 network, I installed IE8 on the PC, without any problems. None of the post-SP2 updates were applied until after I joined the PC to the domain and let WSUS handle them. Everything seems fine here.
MS09-014/KB963027 caused our ADP software to stop working
If you would like to run your ADP app through AOK and see the results we would be happy to do this at no charge and we could ppublish the results on this site?. You would need to download the app to our secure server. We can talk you through this process john.tate@changebase.com
Lately - on all 3 of my systems - IE7 started hanging and sometimes it would not load the first time I tried to run it (on XP Home). Once it got into RAM the first time it worked a little better. It also seemed to work a little better on my XP Pro system. I finally got tired of watching "connecting" and tried IE8 on one of the XP Home systems. It seems a little more bloated but at least it loads every time. The only thing I don't like about it is when you try to open new tabs in a browsing session, it takes a lot longer to load than it did in IE7. It does show you thumbnails of the last 9 web pages you viewed after the new tab opens, but I don't know how often I'll use those links. As always, time will tell
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