For those of you who use Internet Explorer as the default browser, here is some good news – Microsoft is not going to let you sit back and do nothing about the browser version, but has every intention to automatically upgrade your Internet Explorer to the latest version available for your PC. Microsoft sees this automated move on their part as helping shift the Web forward, beginning from January 2012 onwards in Australia and Brazil, targeting folks who have turned on automatic updating in Windows Update. This would be a rather similar approach as with their IE9 release earlier this year, with Microsoft taking a measured approach that scales up over time.
Needless to say, whenever you make the upgrade jump from one version of Internet Explorer to the next via Windows Update, your home page, search provider, and default browser remains unchanged so that a sense of familiarity will be retained, and you need not run around like a headless chicken. Of course, if you previously turned down installations of IE8 or IE9 via Windows Update, then there won’t be any automatic update for you this time around as well.
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