Small Business Tech

You now how the holidays sneak up on you every year? Well the release of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 has snuck up on me. If you have concerns about it automatically being installed on your computer workstations Microsoft does offer a method for blocking the automatic install via Windows Update. You should be concerned if you have the following situation:

1. You have not tested IE 8. IE 8 does handle web sites very differently, and it is possible that a mission-critical site does not function correctly.
2. You are using Automatic Windows Update on workstations.

If you are satisfied that IE 8 will not cause your organization problems or you have disabled automatic updates then rest easy this week. Otherwise, you will need to install this tool from Microsoft. This tool simply changes a DWORD in the Windows Registry.

Labels: IE, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Windows Update