I’m going to add my voice to the chorus of comments on Microsoft’s latest round of updates.
Unlike Danny’s excruciating experience with IE7 and the update, I haven’t had quite the same level of difficulties. But tons of problems nonetheless.
About 10 days ago, I received the latest round of updates from Microsoft. I’ve been using IE7 for a little while, and have gotten used to it. I like the improved presentation of graphics, fonts and the like that came with it. After the latest update however, things started to get flaky. Two applications in particular have been giving me constant headaches. IE7 and Outlook. Outlook really has turned into LookOut mail. Inevitably, I now have to restart Outlook twice each morning for it to operate stably. IE7 randomnly becomes unusable, displaying blank pages. Fortunately, I also use Firefox, so while annoying, IE7’s issues are only forcing me to spend more time using Firefox. That’s a shame. I like IE. I like using both browsers, and am used to doing different things in each. I can’t do that right now, and it bugs me.
Over the last 2 days, I’ve received a whole bunch of additional updates. These were not optional. They just downloaded. I expected that they were fixes for the previous week’s updates. I don’t know what they were; they haven’t helped. Or perhaps they have; I’ve only restarted LookOut once so far this morning!
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