Microsoft gets silent upgrade religion, will push IE auto-updates
Copies Chrome and follows Firefox to get users onto the newest browser without asking permission
Beginning in January it will roll out automatic upgrades of IE to the newest version suitable for a user’s version of Windows. Windows XP users still on IE6 or IE7, for example, will be updated to IE8; Windows Vista or Windows 7 users running IE7 or IE8 will be pushed to IE9.