meddlingBanter

I get about as many comments to my blog as neutered cat gets layed, but if you can provide any incite as to whether my question above is true or not let me know.  This morning I was updating a new laptop and several desktops at work and noticed IE7 wasn’t being pushed out with Automatic Updates.  I know that it used to be pushed out because of all the media coverage, and that’s how I installed IE7 on most of the desktops around the office.  I searched around various news sources and googled my heart out but I couldn’t find any information to prove or disprove my question.  The IE blog had this to say back in November:

Don’t be surprised if you see AU distribute new updates for Windows in November, but don’t see IE7. The rate of delivery and when IE7 reaches you will be based on several factors including the release of other higher priority updates and support call volume. You may have IE7 delivered by AU at any time over the next few months. Of course you can go to the Windows Update website and get it whenever you wish.

The only thing I can conclude from this statement is that the lack of IE7 in Windows Update today could be from the high number of windows updates this month (13 at least on the desktop) and they chose to remove IE7 so their servers don’t get hammered.  In reality this is no big deal since I can just go and download it anyway, but this seems like a significant change in policy.