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For those poor Windows users out there that ran Microsoft’s January 2007 security and products updates that had not ventured down the IE7 path yet, it came a knocking for them.

Unless you did a custom update and unselected IE7, you gave permission for it to install Internet Explorer 7.0 on said machine. Apparently in many cases, post IE7 install, users ran into crashes, web site functionality and rendering issues. In some extreme cases, Windows machine that was completely unable to do any web browsing.

Many of the problems are usually related to ActiveX controls and custom pre-IE7 hacks in web apps that just dont work anymore in IE7 or the default “secure” IE7.

A good rundown of the fallout of IE7 can be seen over at eWeek’s - Is Internet Explorer 7 Too Locked Down for You?

These are the days that so many people remember why they love Microsoft with such adoration.

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