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Microsoft announces automatic upgrades for Internet Explorer
Saturday December 24, 2011 08:09:59 AM,
IANS
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San Francisco: Microsoft Thursday announced that it will automatically upgrade
the Internet Explorer (IE) to the latest version to give Windows
customers more protection against malicious software.
According to the company's blog post, starting from Australia and
Brazil next January, users of Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 will
get the IE updates if they have turned on automatic updating via
Windows Update.
Microsoft said the industry has been moving toward automatic
updates as a norm since the biggest online threat these days is
social engineering malware typically targeting outdated software
like web browsers, reported Xinhua.
Automatic upgrades, also called silent updates for displaying no
messages or windows during the progress, has been deployed by
Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox. It can ensure users have
the newest versions of the browser, and therefore is seen as a big
improvement to Internet security.
According to the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report released
in October, 99 percent of all attacks during the first half of
2011 came from unpatched but known vulnerabilities, and 90 percent
of infections were attributed to vulnerability exploitation that
had a security update available from the software vendor for more
than a year.
In the latest research data from web analytics company StatCounter,
Microsoft's IE has a strong lead with 40.63 percent of global
browser market share, followed by 25.7 percent of Chrome and 25.23
percent of Firefox.
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