{"id":522,"date":"2009-04-13T14:59:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T20:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/news\/?p=522"},"modified":"2009-04-13T14:59:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T20:59:13","slug":"microsoft-announces-plan-for-roll-out-of-internet-explorer-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/13\/microsoft-announces-plan-for-roll-out-of-internet-explorer-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Announces Plan for Roll Out of Internet Explorer 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft today <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ie\/archive\/2009\/04\/10\/prepare-for-automatic-update-distribution-of-ie8.aspx\">announced its plan to roll out Internet Explorer 8<\/a> to Microsoft\u2019s Windows Update and Automatic Update software update services. According Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 will begin to show up in the update services  &#8220;on or about the third week of April&#8221; and the show up for &#8220;a narrow audience and expand over time to the entire user base.&#8221; For users who update via the Automatic Update service the update will not be automatically installed, instead they will see a screen that will ask them if they wish to update to the new version. When Internet Explorer 8 was released on March 19 it was only made available for download on the Internet Explorer website.  According to <a href=\"http:\/\/marketshare.hitslink.com\/report.aspx?sample=34&amp;qprid=34&amp;qpcustom=Microsoft+Internet+Explorer+8.0\">Net Applications<\/a>, Internet Explorer 8&#8217;s market share had reached 4.36 percent yesterday; up from 1.45 percent on the day finalized version was released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft today announced its plan to roll out Internet Explorer 8 to Microsoft\u2019s Windows Update and Automatic Update software update services. According Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 will begin to show up in the update services &#8220;on or about the third week of April&#8221; and the show up for &#8220;a narrow audience and expand over time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/13\/microsoft-announces-plan-for-roll-out-of-internet-explorer-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft Announces Plan for Roll Out of Internet Explorer 8&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-web-browsers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}