Dear All (This impacts you):
The Department Of Information Technology sent me an email at noon today with the following information:
“Deployment of Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8) will begin on April 5, 2011 and run through April 22, 2011.”
This means starting today, your computer might act funny when you turn it on over the next few weeks. Don’t worry, it’s not a virus from some sinister outside source. It’s more like a virus from somebody you know.
During the first week, you’ll get an “optional advertisement” that IE8 is available. My advice is, go ahead and download it.
The second week, any computer that doesn’t have EI8 will have it automatically loaded when the computer is turned on. I think they should call that the “optional is optional” plan. You can stop it during the second week by pushing the “restart now” button while it is automatically downloading.
On the third week the “restart now” button goes away. Much like every radio tuner had to be licensed by the Soviet Regime, all computers which are turned on will have EI8 downloaded on them immediately, like it or not, no options to stop it.
So my advice is go ahead and download it when it is “offered,” optionally, the first week. At least then you’ll have the illusion you have freedom of choice.
Thanks,
And for heavens sake, don’t fall for Microsoft’s ads to upgrade to IE9. You’ll just upset IT’s plan to keep XXPS at least one year and/or one version behind up-to-date.
You really want to get in trouble, don’t you…