Microsoft targets IE6, IE7 users with browser upgrade next week
Microsoft Corp. will begin pushing Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) to users running the older IE6 and IE7 browsers next week, the company has announced.
Although people running earlier versions of IE8 have been seeing upgrade offers since Microsoft released the final code last month, only now is the company getting around to posting the new browser on Windows Update.
"Starting on or about the third week of April, users still running IE6 or IE7 on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 will get a notification through Automatic Update about IE8," said Eric Hebenstreit, a lead program manager on the IE8 team, in an entry to a company blog.
