I got an email today from Microsoft with some news on what's going on. One of the blurbs read:
Internet Explorer 7 will be distributed as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates shortly after the final version of the browser is released. Organizations can use a non-expiring Blocker Toolkit to block delivery to their users.
Two lines. Doesn't it just seem a little odd that the second line of the abstract is telling you how to avoid the install?
Here's the full info:
Again, 75% of the article is how to avoid installing IE7. MS appears to have put a lot of work into making sure you can avoid getting IE7 - a whole IE7 Blocker Toolkit? It just makes me wonder then why it isn't an optional update, then. Security doesn't seem to cut it as a reason in my opinion. Any security update that is high-priority should be put into the version of an app (IE 6) that everyone is running.
I'm not an MS-hater/anti-trust law suit proponent or anything, but this just kinda gave me a funny feeling reading it.