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After over five years, Microsoft has finally released a new version of Internet Explorer. Sometime soon, Windows users can expect to see a notification asking them to install it. As IE’s development team explains:

To help you become more secure and up-to-date, we will distribute IE7 via Automatic Updates as a high-priority update. We will start very soon with those of you who are already running IE7 pre-releases and then move onto IE6 users after a few weeks. We will progressively roll out to all IE6 users over a few months, so donâ??t be surprised if you donâ??t see the update right away. (Of course, users who canâ??t wait that long can download IE7 from http://www.microsoft.com/ie.)

Of course we want to make sure you are ready to upgrade, so AU will notify you when IE7 is ready to install by presenting a welcome screen. You can choose whether or not to install it; IE7 will not install without your consent.

If you haven’t been playing around with pre-release versions of IE, Web site managers should be prepared to rapidly test their sites’ designs in IE 7, or your site visitors will soon be doing it for you!

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