• Susan Bradley: Don’t install IE 10 on Windows 7

    Posted on July 11, 2013 at 09:48 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Many of you know that I regard Susan Bradley as a modern saint — she knows more about Windows updates than anybody I know. Part of that is her exposure to lots and lots of different machines, which she has to keep working as part of her day job.

    I’ve recommended that people go ahead and install Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 7 — but use Firefox or Chrome. (I tend to use Chrome more these days.) Susan just wrote a very good riposte to that recommendation:

    One of the reasons I haven’t given the all clear to IE10 is that when you install IE10 and then need to run the system update readiness tool that does a check for system corruption, due to how the IE team didn’t quite properly name some of the file in the spell checking add ins, it throws off the bogus error that you have corrupted files.

    I’m holding Microsoft to the fire until they release an update to the tool. I don’t want users to think they have corrupted systems, when they don’t.

    Add to that there’s still many IT pros complaining about compatibility with web sites, which leads me to hold back and not give the green light. It’s pushing many a IE user over to Chrome/Firefox.

    I haven’t personally encountered the problem Susan talks about – but then again, I don’t have thousands of machines at my disposal.

    In the end, for normal everyday use, I don’t have any problem recommending that you install IE 10 on Win7. But I’ll stick to my over-riding recommendation, going back many years: keep IE updated, but don’t use it.

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