'Silent' Updates For IE Browser

From January, Internet Explorer (IE) users will be automatically

Microsoft mentioned it was starting the plan to refurbish millions of machines to upgrade safety online.

Future updates to the browser would be practical without a user's ability to help beat scammers infectious people out with counterfeit updates.

Those who did not wish their browser

"The Web on the whole is improved - and safer - when more people run the many present browser," wrote Ryan Gavin, Microsoft's IE boss, in a blogpost explaining the plan .

He mentioned the information collected by Microsoft for its safety comprehension reports showed that many cyber criminals targeted aged or out of date program when they attempted to pretence people in to installing counterfeit updates.

To beat such scams, Mr Gavin, mentioned that once the ultimate chronicle of the browser was commissioned all future updates would arrive silently and be practical without a user getting involved.

Chester Wisniewski, comparison safety confidant at Sophos, mentioned the plan would assist those who did not see the significance of staying up to date.

"Microsoft has been struggling with browser stragglers for years," he mentioned in a matter .

The hulk upgrade programme will start IE users running Windows XP, Vista and 7, and will initial be rolled out in Australia and Brazil. Only those Windows users with automatic updates incited on will be enrolled in the programme.

Those using Windows XP will be upgraded to IE8, whilst those on Vista and 7 obtain bumped up to IE9. This will may meant the passing of IE6, a 10-year-old chronicle of the browser that Microsoft has been perplexing to snuff out off for a whilst .

Figures collected by Microsoft indicate IE6 is used by about 8.3% of people around the world, with the greatest number of users in China, where roughly 28% of people sojourn married to it.

Globally, Internet Explorer is still the many renouned browser, with more than 52% of people using it, according to net marketplace investigate definite Net Applications. Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome are battling it out for second place.

Microsoft mentioned it had done collection that would let people prevent or uninstall the more present versions of the browsers if they longed for to stay with an older copy.