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Microsoft has begun to slowly step by step provide the version of Internet Explorer 7 English version for Windows users worldwide Automatic Updates feature information.

As soon as Internet Explorer 7 officially launched on October 18, Microsoft began testing the release of this new version of the browser through Automatic Updates. However, Microsoft claims that starting on November 1, all IE 6 users in English will begin to see signs of an automatic upgrade.

Gary Schare, product manager for Microsoft's Internet Explorer Group, said the fact is that providing IE 7 via Automatic Updates has been started since the past few days. ' On Wednesday last week, we started offering IE 7 via Automatic Updates for a modest number of users .'

Accordingly, at that time only about 1% of IE 6 users in the English version - equivalent to about 1 million users - received an upgrade to IE 7.

Users will not receive any indication that IE 7 is being sent to their PC. Only when downloading IE 7 via Automatic Updates is successful will the user notice the permission to allow or not to upgrade to IE 7.

Schare said his team was given a three-month period to provide IE 7 to users worldwide through Automatic Updates. However, the director of IE Group expects this process to take place faster. " We want everyone to use IE 7 as quickly as possible because IE 7 has a lot of good security features for users ."

The main reason for the IE Team's decision to provide IE 7 via 'Automatic Updates' is because of concerns about network congestion that may occur because of the large number of users downloading. Also help network administrators have more free time to install security updates that will be released in the coming week.

Hoang Dung