IE Pop Up Blocker for non XP machines?

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IE Pop Up Blocker for non XP machines?

JeremyL

2:28 am on Aug 31, 2004 (gmt 0)

I installed the XP SP2 the other day and am loving the new pop up blocker. I am wondering if Win2K will soon get any update with the popup blocker installed. Anyone know

Robin_reala

9:13 am on Aug 31, 2004 (gmt 0)

As far as I know the improvements aren't going to be backported to older OSs. You could try and alternative browser like Firefox, Opera, or Mozilla, that has pop-up blocking.

Lord Majestic

9:16 am on Aug 31, 2004 (gmt 0)

As far as I know the improvements aren't going to be backported to older OSs.

Rumour has it Microsoft restarted development work on IE7 since next major OS release is not due until 2006. I would be suprised if IE7 has not got popup blocker, and I'd say they would have to release it on Win2k, but probably not anything less than that.

encyclo

12:32 pm on Aug 31, 2004 (gmt 0)

Even if IE7 is created (which is not certain), it is very unlikely that it will be made available for Windows 2000. There is also practically no chance that the popup blocker from XP SP2 will be ported to any other version of Windows either - there are certainly no plans by Microsoft to do so at the moment.

Lord Majestic

12:53 pm on Aug 31, 2004 (gmt 0)

there are certainly no plans by Microsoft to do so at the moment.

You are not suggesting that they will drop existing and desireable feature from current codebase? Whatever browser will be in the next version of Windows it is highly unlikely to be totally rewritten from scratch, and I'd say its given that popup blocker will stay.

Why? Because one thing Microsoft fears is losing real estate on desktop because real estate given leverage that they don't want to give ground on to no one. IMHO its strategically right position to take.

encyclo

12:57 pm on Aug 31, 2004 (gmt 0)

Yes, sorry I wasn't clear - the popup blocker will surely stay for future versions of Windows, but it won't be made available to anything older than Windows XP.

Microsoft are using their poor security record as an incentive to upgrade - they want to move people off Win98 and 2000 and over to XP, and the extra security features of XP SP2 are being used as a lever.

Lord Majestic

1:08 pm on Aug 31, 2004 (gmt 0)

There are not that many differences in Win2k and WinXP as far as browser's code is concerned, if its good enough I think people will find way to get it installed on Win2k, however I think it might be likely that all new cool features will be available in Shortcut-horn to create incentive for people to upgrade.