Microsoft is on a test-build roll this week. The latest group to provide a test create of a brand new release is the net Explorer (IE) 1.Around the IE Staff weblog,
Windows 7 Key, Microsoft officials posted on December 11 concerning the availability with the so-called Net Explorer Automated Part Activation (IE ACA) update.The IE group has posted for download public test builds of IE 6 and IE 7 that disable the “click to activate” feature that Microsoft added to IE in April 2006 in order to comply with a patent-infringement ruling against Microsoft. In August,
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional, Microsoft settled with the plaintiff, Eolas,
Office 2010 Key, for an undisclosed amount. Consequently, Microsoft no longer needs to produce a separate “click to activate” control to supplement IE.Microsoft has made available a number of IE builds that disable the control: IE 6 for XP, IE 6 for Windows Server 2003,
Windows 7 64 Bit, IE 7 for XP, IE seven for Windows Server 2003 and IE seven for Windows Vista. All of those builds can be accessed via a Microsoft Knowledge Base article page about the browser refresh.Microsoft officials said in November that the company planned to release a check version of the IE refresh in December 2007. The final release of the IE refresh is set for April 2008,
Office 2010, and will be released as part of an IE Cumulative Update, according to Microsoft.