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I’m reading some speculation that Microsoft plans to release IE7 tomorrow (i.e., Tuesday, October 10) as a Critical Update along with some 11 security patches, all delivered via Automatic Updates.

For the record, I don’t think it will happen.

Microsoft has made it pretty clear in recent months that they throttle traffic on their update servers to make sure that the most important updates are delivered as quickly as possible. They’ve also suggested that the volume of traffic from those servers is sufficient to break the Internet. Given that tomorrow’s Patch Tuesday package is one of the larger ones in recent memory, why would they add a huge IE7 download to the package, potentially delaying the genuinely critical patches? IE7 tomorrow? I doubt it… | Ed Bott’s Windows Expertise