Internet Explorer 7 has just offered to install itself on my machine helpfully already downloaded, all 14.8MB, by Windows Automatic Update.

One can assume that IE’s market share will shift from 6 to 7 practically overnight unless significant numbers reject the update or have switched Automatic Update off completely.

Some people just love shipping applications with the stupidest possible default settings.

Internet Explorer 7.0 seems to be just one such application.