A tool that blocks Internet Explorer 11 installations on Windows 7 machines via Automatic Update is now available. Microsoft last week released the Internet Explorer 11 Blocker Toolkit through its ...

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As its name implies, the toolkit can be used to prevent Internet Explorer 11 from being automatically installed on users’ Windows 7 machines. When the new browser version is pushed out via Automatic ...

As with IE7, Microsoft is planning to distribute IE8 as a high-priority update through Automatic Updates (AU), as well as the Windows Update (WU) and Microsoft Update (MU) services. The company is ...

When deployed and run, the Blocker Toolkit will leave the old version of Edge in place. Microsoft released similar toolkits for IE7, IE8, IE9, IE10 and IE11 before the public release of those browsers ...