Internet Explorer 9 Will Have Windows 7 SP1 Bits

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puscifer919

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[citation][nom]Regulas[/nom]ZZZzzz[/citation]
Seconded. Who gives a crap, ah? Pfft. Boring. Get a real browser. Get a real OS for that matter.
 

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[citation][nom]puscifer919[/nom]Seconded. Who gives a crap, ah? Pfft. Boring. Get a real browser. Get a real OS for that matter.[/citation]

Which OS would that be?

(I'm sitting in a company with over 190 windows pcs and servers and I've got zero problems)

Comments like yours makes me wonder for the future
 

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[citation][nom]mister g[/nom]Who cares if it needs a reboot? It just means that when you really download SP1 the entire pack would be a little smaller.[/citation]
In this day and age a reboot should not be required for the majority of updates. It certainly shouldn't be forced on you at any rate, which Windows does (less so than it did in XP, but it still does).
 
[citation][nom]mister g[/nom]Who cares if it needs a reboot? It just means that when you really download SP1 the entire pack would be a little smaller.[/citation]
If the Win7 service packs follow the XP pattern, the one to download would be the equivalent of the "IT" version - the one that updates everything. That would be the one size (big) fits all.
 

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Looking forward to seeing what IE9 can do.
Microsoft has been doing a lot of good things lately: Windows 7 is great, Office 2009 was a big step forward, and Visual Studio has really always been the defacto standard.
I just haven't seen the love yet on IE. Maybe this is the year!
 
Errr... Lolz?
The "system elements" that IE 9 requires (and that need a reboot) are patches to Direct2D: the version shipped with Win7 RTM is incomplete and buggy - and Direct2D being a basis for many Win7 integrated apps, it needs a reboot.

Except if you already installed a Platform Preview or a Beta, in which case you should be good to go - even without SP1.

Or not: if it does like with some Platform Previews, Mozilla will find more bugs in the patches and ask Microsoft to correct those - again (Firefox 4 also uses Direct2D if available).
 

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[citation][nom]damianrobertjones[/nom]...I'm sitting in a company with over 190 windows pcs and servers and I've got zero problems)...[/citation] Nice and quiet when they're all switched off, isn't it?
 

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[citation][nom]damianrobertjones[/nom]Why? Are they MAKING you update?[/citation]
Oh wait, hold on.... I GOT THIS ONE!
I'm gonna say the answer is: No
I win $100? Or at least brownies?

I too am sitting at a company (well, technically a university) that is running 80.5% Windows, 19% Mac, and 0.5% Linux/Unix. The server room has only three Unix/Linux servers in it; the rest (50+ servers) are Windows along with the 7 or so Mac servers. And I'm counting virtual installs too, not just the physical blades.
So I too fail to see how Windows isn't a "real" operating system.
 

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Just downloaded the beta and spent some time exploring its new features. While I'll need to spend more time on it before I can give an honest evaluation, my out-the-gate impression is rather ho-hum. I find the minimalist UI design, while clean, not very appealing.
 

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[citation][nom]randomizer[/nom]Possibly because you've already installed all the updates that it contains.[/citation]

This is a pretty common misconception. A service pack is not the sum of updates prior to it. Updates are developed individually with no cross-update regression testing possible. They belong in a different code tree from the one that follows the RTM->sp1->sp2... path. The equivalent fix for an issue in the service pack may or may not use the code from the update. Service packs get full regression testing (why would you have an sp beta if the equivalent fixes are already in the wild) and often include fixes that are not available through any update.

Just FYI :)
 

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[citation][nom]jsc[/nom]If the Win7 service packs follow the XP pattern, the one to download would be the equivalent of the "IT" version - the one that updates everything. That would be the one size (big) fits all.[/citation]
The full version should only interest someone that works at it or someone that's installing windows 7 from scratch. For the rest is easier to just use windows update, this way the file will be way smaller.
 

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[citation][nom]digiex[/nom]Another anti trust lawsuit in the making...[/citation]

Other browser makers are still on a level playing field. The SP is already available to the public and if last minute changes are made to it then it will affect the IE team just the same as the Firefox guys.

But yes, you're probably right. Some retard will sue MSFT. Because, you know, it's Tuesday and that's suin' day.
 

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[citation][nom]mitch074[/nom]Errr... Lolz?The "system elements" that IE 9 requires (and that need a reboot) are patches to Direct2D: the version shipped with Win7 RTM is incomplete and buggy - and Direct2D being a basis for many Win7 integrated apps, it needs a reboot.Except if you already installed a Platform Preview or a Beta, in which case you should be good to go - even without SP1.Or not: if it does like with some Platform Previews, Mozilla will find more bugs in the patches and ask Microsoft to correct those - again (Firefox 4 also uses Direct2D if available).[/citation]
How do you know that it's Direct2D that will be updates when IE9 is installed. Also updating direct2d does not require a reboot. Since Windows XP that you don't need to reboot when you update directx.
 
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