Microsoft will promote its new internet explorer 11 web browser for Windows 7 in the form of an automatic upgrade now that it has been released Computer World reported Thursday.
"We will begin automatically updating Windows 7 customers to IE11 in the weeks ahead, starting today with customers running the IE11 Developer and Release Previews," Rob Mauceri and Sandeep Singhal, a pair of Internet Explorer group program managers told Computer World.
Consumers can obtain the new web browser through Microsoft's website and a 28 megabyte download.
According to Computer World, the IE11 has 29 percent more speed than Google's Chrome 30 web browser software, 32 percent than Mozilla Firefox's 25 browser, and 26 percent than Opera's Opera 17 software.
"The faster pace is absolutely the biggest pain point," Michael Silver, a Gartner analyst told Computer World in an interview last month. "The problem with faster release cycles is that [enterprises] don't know if their apps will work with each new version. [And] IE is the biggest inhibitor to continuous upgrades."
Microsoft released an IE 11 Blocker Toolkit last month for companies who did not want the browser on desktop computers in their offices, and preferred to have employees access the internet on an older version of the browser software until the new IE 11 officially became available. Companies could also run the blocker software in their offices or as an administrative template IT via Group Policy settings. The web browser was introduced a week later on Microsoft's Windows 8.1 operating system Oct. 17.
IE 11 is expected to sell well after Microsoft saw sales for its previous version, the Internet Explorer 10 jump from zero to 34 percent because the company made the upgrade for its Internet Explorer version a necessity, and some success with its Windows 8 operating system Computer World reported.
