Microsoft Posts Tool Kit to Delay IE8 Download

From PC World: Microsoft Tuesday posted a toolkit to block the upcoming Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) from downloading and installing automatically when it is officially released later this year.

If the company uses a timeline similar to its previous browser, the toolkit's release means Microsoft is likely to deliver IE8 within the next three months.

In an entry to a company blog, an IE program manager said that Microsoft would push IE8 to users via its Windows Update and Microsoft Update services when the browser is finished. The blocker modifies each PC's Windows registry.

"We've done a lot of work in IE8 to maintain compatibility with sites designed for Internet Explorer 7 , for example, compatibility view and the compatibility meta tag," said Jane Maliouta , the IE program manager. "However, we know many IT organizations will still want to test the browser before it is deployed."

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