IE8 Blocker Toolkit enables IT Administrators to disable automatic delivery of Internet Explorer 8 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates and the Windows Update and Microsoft Update sites.
Microsoft will distribute Windows Internet Explorer 8 as a high-priority update through Automatic Updates for Windows XP, 2003, Vista and Server 2008. This Blocker Toolkit is intended for organizations that would like to block automatic delivery of Internet Explorer 8 to machines in environments where Automatic Updates is enabled.
Here is what IE blog says:
We believe IE8 helps make browsing the web faster, easier, safer and more reliable. To help our users be more secure and up-to-date, we will distribute IE8 via Automatic Update (AU) and the Windows Update (WU) and Microsoft Update (MU) sites much like we did for IE7. We know that in a corporate environment, the IT organization will often want to delay the introduction of a new browser until they have tested compatibility with internal applications and sites. To help prevent users from installing IE8 through Automatic Update before compatibility testing has been completed, we are providing the IE8 Blocker Toolkit. This toolkit has no expiration date and can be configured either by running the registry file on the client machines or via Group Policy in domain joined environments.
If you previously used the IE7 Blocker toolkit to block IE7 from being offered as a high-priority update, you will need to run the IE8 version of the Blocker Toolkit to block IE8 from being offered via AU. There are different registry keys used to block or unblock automatic delivery of IE7 and IE8. If you configure the IE8 Blocker Toolkit setting to prevent users from installing IE8 via WU/AU, IE8 will not appear in the list of available high priority or important updates.
NOTE: The IE8 Blocker toolkit will not block the final version of IE8 being offered to users who already have pre-released versions of IE8 installed on their machine. Also, the IE8 Blocker toolkit will not prevent users from manually installing IE8 from the Microsoft Download Center.
For more information about the IE8 Blocker Toolkit, check out this link.
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Arvin V. Malabanan
it looks like IE 8 is not yet in final stage... time to get the IE 8 blocker toolkit.
Bruno
Well, I still do not know about IE8 Final how it goes over Windows Vista and Windows 7, but on Windows XP it create for every new Tab, a new "iexplore.exe" Service in Task Manager, one with bigger amount of memory than the first one... It is catastrophic...
I mean, come on, mass people still working on 512MB of RAM...
I do not want an Internet Explorer which for every new created Tab in it, he opens another "iexplore.exe" Service with a new amount of 30-60MB of mem. usage, and that it goes just further for every new created Tab...
Yeah, for just opening some 10 Tabs in all new IE8, he will, for this, created a 10 of the "iexplore.exe" Services, and they will use in cumulative some 500MB of RAM!
I test before few month ago a Mozilla Firefox 3, I open 204 Tabs in one Firefox session, and he use some 900MB of RAM during that time, and was stable and fast working for 3 days like that, without any problem, and than I shut him down manually... :)
And another present about all new IE8, they still did not repair an old IE7 bug with .url generic icon...
VG
^^ IE8 opens each tab as a separate process so that if one tab crashes, it doesnt affect other opened tabs. Thats why you see several iexplore.exe instances in Task Manager.
Bruno
I did not know that, thank you, but, an again, they using quite a lot of mem...
More than ever I think...