IE8 coming to WSUS on August 25, 2009

Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer 8 will be released via Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) on August 25, 2009. Here's what IT admins need to know.<BR><BR><a href='http://meincmagazine.com/microsoft/news/2009/06/ie8-coming-to-wsus-on-august-25-2009.ars'>Read the whole story</a>

 

[Dunlavy]

Using IE 8 at work even though the rest of the organization is still on IE 6 or IE 7. Love it.

 

[MrYoung]

As long as you got IE8... who needs those other crappy browsers. All business' should be required to use IE 8. But of course you'll get some idiot IT guy trying to deploy firefox, chrome, or worse yet.... opera on the company computers.

 

[Dunlavy]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by MrYoung:<BR>As long as you got IE8... who needs those other crappy browsers. All business' should be required to use IE 8. But of course you'll get some idiot IT guy trying to deploy firefox, chrome, or worse yet.... opera on the company computers. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>Uhhh... sarcasm?<BR><BR>I never cared for Firefox much. I used Opera for a time, but when you're completely satisfied with IE7 or IE8, why switch? Just because?

 

[doornail]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by MrYoung:<BR>But of course you'll get some idiot IT guy trying to deploy firefox, chrome, or worse yet.... opera on the company computers. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Yeah, those stupid trained IT professionals their lousy educated assessments. Damn them. BTW, have you ever seen the browser stats for Ars readers?<BR><BR>View image: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/ars_browser_share_0509.png <BR><BR>http://meincmagazine.com/microso...-chip-away-at-ie.ars <BR><BR>While I'm impressed the IE Team has actually taken their browser on a shockingly non-retarded vector, it's still years behind and remains a general impediment to advancing the web.

 

[darkowl]

In the long term, they should ditch the IE rendering engine and just go with e.g. WebKit. There's no reason to develop your own rendering engine these days, as all browsers now aim to display content similarly. The differences are in the UI, the platform optimisations, and other "higher level" things.<BR><BR>Still, IE8 should be a mandatory upgrade for any fools still languishing on IE6, and anyone on IE7 as well for that matter. IE8 actually makes life as a web developer easy, as if your code works in IE8, FF or Safari, chances are it'll now be identical across the three, with only a few little tweaks (usually margin or padding on some elements, and no - I don't advocate using a "reset" stylesheet - yech).<BR><BR>Use whatever you like, but if you're still on IE6 you're a godless heathen.<BR><BR>And whilst I think about it - we've gone from Rendering Engine wars to JavaScript Engine wars. Am I the only one who sees a problem with this?

 

[snowman<ca>]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by darkowl:<BR>In the long term, they should ditch the IE rendering engine and just go with e.g. WebKit. There's no reason to develop your own rendering engine these days, as all browsers now aim to display content similarly. The differences are in the UI, the platform optimisations, and other "higher level" things.<BR><BR>Still, IE8 should be a mandatory upgrade for any fools still languishing on IE6, and anyone on IE7 as well for that matter. IE8 actually makes life as a web developer easy, as if your code works in IE8, FF or Safari, chances are it'll now be identical across the three, with only a few little tweaks (usually margin or padding on some elements, and no - I don't advocate using a "reset" stylesheet - yech).<BR><BR>Use whatever you like, but if you're still on IE6 you're a godless heathen.<BR><BR>And whilst I think about it - we've gone from Rendering Engine wars to JavaScript Engine wars. Am I the only one who sees a problem with this? </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>I wish every business would drop it too, unfortunately that does give a upside for Microsoft to have it's own rendering engine since noting can run those applications written to (even if not intentionally) IE6 but a Windows product.

 

[indeego]

IE is actually holding MSFT back in terms of what it can do with the rest of its products. The testing for legacy stuff is so great that they risk user upheaval if they break too much. This gives the other 4 main browser makers opportunities to develop at a much faster pace.<BR><BR>I think it would be quite an event if IE was eventually a contributing cause of Microsoft's downfall (marketshare, I'm well aware MSFT the company isn't going anywhere anytime soon) after it helped it so much in the early 00's.

 

[Pamel]

As far as WSUS is concerned, you can select to have WSUS download it manually now and force an install. We did that shortly after it was released.

 

[cateye]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Dunlavy:<BR>Uhhh... sarcasm? </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>You got trolled. (Check out "MrYoung" post history.)

 

[Leadership]

I'm always a little sad to see a new IE roll out, another problem for firefox to deal with, but we'll get there in the end!