IE11 now available for Windows 7

[Arthur]

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Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7 out now « Ars Technica

 

Internet Explorer 11 is now available for Windows 7 users, bringing Microsoft's fastest, most secure, and most standards-compliant browser to the company's most widely used operating system.

 

The browser is almost—but not quite—identical to its Windows 8.1 counterpart. On Windows 8.1, the browser supports the DRM-in-HTML standard Encrypted Media Extensions, and the Windows 8.1 version has a more restrictive security sandbox.

 

As with Internet Explorer 10—and in a change to older versions of Internet Explorer—version 11 will be rolled out as an automatic update. The first users to get the browser will be those with the Release Preview installed. It will then be rolled out to other Windows 7 users in the coming weeks or months.

 

Windows 8 users who want the new browser will have to upgrade to Windows 8.1.

 

IE11 for Windows 7 Globally Available for Consumers and Businesses « IE Blog

 

Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) is available worldwide in 95 languages for download today. We will begin automatically updating Windows 7 customers to IE11 in the weeks ahead, starting today with customers running the IE11 Developer and Release Previews. With this final release, IE11 brings the same leading standards support--with improved performance, security, privacy, and reliability that consumers enjoy on Windows 8.1—to Windows 7 customers.

Edited November 7, 2013 by Arthur

[pughburt]

Anyone know if this is going to fix all the issues in IE 10? so many activex/ java based issues were had that we had to always put ie 8/9 browser mode on or use a different browser what a royal pain!

[AngryTechnician]

Actually it gets worse. Exchange OWA does not work properly in IE11 except with Exchange 2013 CU2, unless you use compatibility mode.

[Squip]

Any work on if we need to block this through automatic updates yet?

[speckytecky]

What a total pain - why oh why, do Microsoft persist in rolling out totally unwanted and seemingly at best poorly tested updates? I have IE10 blocked currently, suppose it's going to be necessary to block 11 as well. Still having irregular issues with IE9 failing to pick up the proxy proxy. Grrr!

[3s-gtech]

Never did deploy IE10 due to all the problems it has, just got it on a few machines. As we're on Exchange 2013 CU2 I'm tempted to get testing on this, hate sticking with a long-in-the-tooth browser.

[mrbios]

had IE10 running schoolwide since the summer. Only had issue with two websites both of which are resolved with compatibility mode (and both of which were used by single users in offices as they were admin based sites) what's all the fuss about?

 

Will do some brief testing but no doubt i'll replace IE10 with IE11 quite happily. Running chrome alongside which is also the default browser anyway so IE is only a backup browser these days.

[Duke5A]

What a total pain - why oh why, do Microsoft persist in rolling out totally unwanted and seemingly at best poorly tested updates? I have IE10 blocked currently, suppose it's going to be necessary to block 11 as well. Still having irregular issues with IE9 failing to pick up the proxy proxy. Grrr!

 

Tell me about it. I made the mistake of building IE10 into the base image over the summer and it has been nothing but a headache since. It broke a number of sites that are working in IE9 that included: our SIS system, E2020, parts of Black Board, and smaller sites individual teachers use. We use Google Apps as well, and Google just announced they're dropping support for IE9, so damned if you do, damned if you don't.

 

Chrome is now on every machine in the district as a result. Thank God it works well with GPO.

[fiza]

mentioned it in another post but those with Google Apps for Education will have to upgrade from ie9 to either 10 or 11 as it wont be supported.

 

taken from here : Google Apps update alerts

 

We would like to remind you of the Google Apps browser support policy, the set of guidelines for Google Apps services interoperability support. We support the latest version of Google Chrome (which automatically updates whenever it detects that a new version of the browser is available) as well as the current and prior major release of Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari on a rolling basis. Each time a new version of one of these browsers is released, we begin supporting the update and stop supporting the third-oldest version.

 

Google’s test plans have been adjusted to now stop all testing and engineering work related to Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), as Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) was released on 17 October 2013. End users who access Gmail and other Google Apps services from an unsupported browser will be notified within the next few weeks through an in-product notification message or an interstitial pages with information about modern browsers and how to upgrade to them.

 

Editions included:

Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government

[Michael]

Following this guide to blocking IE11 via WSUS, only Language Packs appear. Not IE11 itself. Is anyone else having this problem?

[edutech4schools]

We just deploy both IE and Chrome although Chrome is the one that I normally see opened on all the the staff laptops.

[fiza]

Following this guide to blocking IE11 via WSUS, only Language Packs appear. Not IE11 itself. Is anyone else having this problem?

 

Same here - Only finds Language packs. I normally google and get the KB number for the download but doesnt seem to be one.

[dhoward_westexetc]

Has anyone that is on the South West Grid had any issues with staff proxy on IE 11?

 

In our testing when IE 11 does an automatic sign-in with a cached password not all of the tabs are unfiltered, only about 2 of them. The rest are still all filtered.

Can you turn off the automatic sign-in feature on IE 11 and have it prompt for a login box like IE 10 does?

[Arthur]

Cabinet files for integrating IE11 into Windows 7 SP1 images:

 

x64: Windows6.1-KB2841134-x64.cab

x86: Windows6.1-KB2841134-x86.cab

 

Users of non-English editions of Windows will also need to integrate the relevant language packs:

 

Internet Explorer 11 Language Packs for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

 

Before you integrate IE11, you will need to integrate five updates that are required for IE11 to work properly in Windows 7 SP1:

 

KB2729094

x64: Windows6.1-KB2729094-v2-x64.msu

x86: Windows6.1-KB2729094-v2-x86.msu

 

KB2726535

x64: Windows6.1-KB2726535-x64.msu

x86: Windows6.1-KB2726535-x86.msu

 

KB2670838

x64: Windows6.1-KB2670838-x64.msu

x86: Windows6.1-KB2670838-x86.msu

 

KB2834140

x64: Windows6.1-KB2834140-v2-x64.msu

x86: Windows6.1-KB2834140-v2-x86.msu

 

KB2786081

x64: Windows6.1-KB2786081-x64.msu

x86: Windows6.1-KB2786081-x86.msu

 

Source: MDL

[network41]

Still only seeing language packs anyone know how to block via WSUS pls

[AngryTechnician]

It hasn't been released to WSUS yet so at the moment there is nothing to block.

[DrCheese]

Mildly annoying, I want to start test deploying it in a few locations (I see browser updates as no big deal nowadays)

[Michael]

Mildly annoying, I want to start test deploying it in a few locations (I see browser updates as no big deal nowadays)

 

I agree and disagree with you there - if the likes of Policy Central works perfectly with IE11 I'd be very surprised. Also I find the likes of Flash and Adobe Reader can also be an issue when it comes to newer browsers. There's no mad rush, so I'd advise you leave it for a while

 

As for installing IE11 at home - got for it. Microsoft 'forced' it on my home notebook the other day via Automatic Updates. The great thing so far (on the surface) is it looks like IE9 and IE10, so it shouldn't confuse users.

[AngryTechnician]

So far other than the OWA problem in Exchange 2010, the only other site I've found has problems is the Guardian Crosswords. The "Save" button doesn't work unless you put the site into compatibility mode, which annoyed the missus no end last night.

 

If it wasn't for OWA I'd merrily deploy it now.

[Michael]

With Office 365 - login.microsoftonline.com the image looks warped, but after this Outlook works absolutely fine. I think Microsoft have released a patch for Exchange 2010 and 2013 to resolve this issue.

[AngryTechnician]

I think Microsoft have released a patch for Exchange 2010 and 2013 to resolve this issue.

 

Just for 2013 so far. I've been told several times over the last week (including by a Microsoft employee) that there is a patch for 2010, but there isn't, and there is no published timeframe for releasing one.

[Gatt]

Great - that's my queue jsut increased exponentially as staff and students with Win7 laptops start installing it and then trying to access the Uni's UAG Portal..

[dhoward_westexetc]

Just for 2013 so far. I've been told several times over the last week (including by a Microsoft employee) that there is a patch for 2010, but there isn't, and there is no published timeframe for releasing one.

 

Do you know if there will be a patch for Exchange 2007 SP3?

[zag]

Made chrome default about 6 months ago after I found out it works with group policies!

 

Not a problem since

[AngryTechnician]

Do you know if there will be a patch for Exchange 2007 SP3?

 

All we know for certain is that there won't be a fix for 2003.

 

There's actually been no announcement that there will be a fix for 2010, it's just an assumption that they will fix it at some point. 2007 and 2010 are still supported products, so it's reasonable to expect there will be a fix in the next cumulative update.