Internet Explorer 10 finally available for Windows 7

Today marks the day that Windows 7 users can finally upgrade their IE to Internet Explorer 10, after a number of feature-incomplete preview versions dating as far back as 2011 were previously the only option.

Microsoft has put up both x32 and x64 versions for download, and the browser is available in a number of languages straight off the bat.


IE10 also comes with an automatic update service.

If you want to run Internet Explorer 10 on your PC, here's what it takes:

• A Windows 7, 8 or Windows RT PC.
• Processor: 1GHz or faster with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2
• RAM: 1GB (x32) or 2GB (x64)
• Hard disk space: 16GB (x32) or 20GB (x64)
• Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver
• Internet access

Also ensure you have an up to date system; you may be required to run Windows Update first before you can install Internet Explorer 10.

As a reminder, there might be people out there that do not want IE10 when it becomes an Automatic Update roll out; for those people there's also a tool to block the upgrade here.




http://windows.micro...dwide-languages

 

Wait, what have I been using all this time?
Was it still beta?

 

Yes, you were using the RC (Release Candidates), which is for all intents & purposes the Beta.

 

Although, the RC is usually pretty close to the final version.

 

Which is exactly what a Beta is, MS just decides to call their Betas RCs.

 

Yaaaay wait a sec... Internet Explorer 11 spotted as part of Windows Blue

 

I figure it would come eventually to W7 users IE10 like they wanted to push users to W8 but unfortunately the bad press didn't go over well and they reluctantly released to W7 users. lmao....that should tell them something don't mess with a good thing or needs to really listen to the endusers whom are their bread/butter profits.

 

It took so long to bring IE10 to Windows 7 because it relies on a bunch of big changes to the foundation of Windows that they had to then backport to Windows 7. Same thing happened with Internet Explorer 9 and Vista.

 

That is why there was such a minimal revision change going to the Final from the RC.

 

Seem good so far I have to update the rest of my computer to take IE10 and go from there...

 

The problem is, Micro$oft never listens to the enduser, they only seem to care about $$$ lately.

 

On the subject of browsers, it's interesting that IE went from dominating the market, to now having the second highest usage share - and Firefox doesn't trail far behind it.

Comparison of web browsers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I wonder what this means for web developers (if anything) in the future, if this pattern continues (and with Opera moving to WebKit, it probably will continue to decline).

 

I'm not that certain about wiki's data, here is some more info: Firefox dips below 20 percent, Chrome falls, Internet Explorer gains | Ars Technica. From what I can tell in a short time with wiki's data, more chrome users visit wikimedia sites, but that's about it.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Wikimedia_.28April_2009_to_present.29

 

Which is exactly why they had record-low prices to upgrade to Windows 8...

I second tijo's post. IMO NetMarketShare is likely the closest to being accurate, and not excessively North American-centric. Although I suppose if your target market is North America, you might want to focus on WebKit and Chrome, just as if your focus market is Belarus you've probably wanted to focus on Opera and Presto.

 

M$ is trying to market the OS not to just make money from its sales but get developers to make apps for the M$ store. They needed a way to get the user base numbers up FAST! M$ has even stated they are in this for the long haul expecting this to be a marathon rather than a sprint etc. Personally I passed up on the $15 upgrade to Windows 8 as M$ did not listen to the end users that tested out the betas so the OS is just not for me...............

 

Exactly, ms was trying to leverage its market share in the pc market.
It's a sound strategy and it may still work out for them in the long run.
Their major mistake was forcing the interface on everything.

Sent from a Galaxy far, far away

 

When I was using IE10, it did the following, and I am not sure why or how to fix it.

For some reason, all downloads were being changed to:

appName_exe, appName_zip or imgName_jpg, imgName_gif, imgName_png

Instead of:

appName.exe, appName.zip or imgName.jpg, imgName.gif, imgName.png

Depending on what I was downloading.

I no longer have that problem, because I uninstalled IE10 from both my desktop & laptop.

 

Were you using Win 7 preview of IE 10? I tried it and noticed some problems when replying to posts here on NBR. The stable/official release has, hopefully, corrected some of the bugs.

 

I've never used the preview version of any of the IEs, that problem is from the actual full version of IE10.