Anyone who has had to deal with the sorry state of their parent’s PC or a stubborn IT department’s refusal to get with ter program and update a browser may soon be able to breathe a sigh of relief. Microsoft is changing the way its Windows Update works so that it will be able to silently update your software in the background, just like Chrome and Firefox do already.
Now more than a decade old, Internet Explorer 6 is the bane of many web developer’s lives. Buggy, insecure, seemingly at war with web standards and still installed on a depressing 8.4 percent of PCs by Microsoft’s own figures. Now though, Redmond really is doing all it can to kill it.
