Microsoft ships tool to block IE11 on Windows 7

Microsoft on Friday shipped a toolkit to block Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) from automatically installing on Windows 7 PCs, a signal that the new browser will release in the next few weeks.

The IE11 Blocker Toolkit is aimed at businesses that want to keep employees on an older edition of IE. Its tools include a script that can be run locally, as well as an administrative template IT administrators can use to block IE11 through Group Policy settings.

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The toolkit blocks automatic upgrading of older editions of Internet Explorer to IE11 on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 through the operating systems' built-in Automatic Update service. Companies that rely on Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) or System Center 2012 do not need the toolkit since they can manage the deployment of IE11 using those tools.

Individuals can also use the toolkit to keep IE11 off their Windows machines without disabling Automatic Updates for all other Microsoft software.

Microsoft has issued similar toolkits for IE7, IE8, IE9 and IE10 before those browsers' public releases. Earlier this year, for example, Microsoft offered a blocking toolkit for IE10 about three weeks prior to the browser's public release.

If Microsoft sticks to the same timetable -- likely, since the idea of the early availability of the toolkit is to give companies time to deploy it -- IE11 will launch near the end of this month or in early November. Microsoft has declined to disclose a ship date for IE11 on Windows 7, saying previously only that it would be this fall.

IE11 on Windows 8.1 will debut sooner: The browser, part of the update to Windows 8, is to land on the Windows Store Thursday, Oct. 17. Current users of Windows 8 and Windows RT can download and install the free Windows 8.1 update -- including IE11 -- that day. Windows 8.1 retail upgrades and systems featuring Windows 8.1 are to launch Oct. 18.

Blocking toolkits, while long crafted by Microsoft, have become more important since early 2012, when the Redmond, Wash. developer began silently upgrading IE to the newest version suitable for a user's version of Windows. Most Windows XP customers, for example, have been upgraded to IE8, while Windows Vista maxed out at IE9 and Windows 7 PCs have, in lieu of a block of one kind or another, been moved to IE10.

Shortly after Microsoft ships the final version of IE11, it will begin pushing the browser to all Windows 7 machines via Automatic Updates. The result will resemble 2013's rapid rise in IE10 adoption. From February through September, IE10's share of all copies of Internet Explorer soared from next to nothing to nearly 34 percent under the forced upgrade from IE9.

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TV-over-Internet service Aereo to come to Android

NEW YORK (AP) — Aereo, a service that delivers broadcast television stations over the Internet, will come to Android devices on Oct. 22.

The service started on iPhones and other Apple devices along with the Roku streaming box before expanding to personal computers. The company says that the Android offering took longer because of the many versions of Android available. Device makers are able to customize the version made by Google. Aereo says its Android app will run on phones and tablets with Android 4.2 or higher. It will be in a beta test mode at first.

Aereo is currently available in New York, Boston, Atlanta, Salt Lake City, Miami, Houston and Dallas. Service starts at $8 a month.

Aereo has won key court rulings against broadcasters who claim its service infringes copyrights.

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Reddit to Livestream Black Friday Shopping Marathon (Exclusive)

For many of the Internet’s most hard-core users, Black Friday poses a particular dilemma, as the season’s most coveted toys and gadgets can be obtained at deep discounts -- but only if would-be shoppers are willing to venture outside and jostle with the masses.

This holiday season Reddit, the site that proudly calls itself “the front page of the Internet,” is offering a solution. Redditgifts, a gift-exchange program that spun off from a subreddit four years ago, will hold its first-ever livestream event, the Redditgifts Shopping Network, on Nov. 29, otherwise known as Black Friday.

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The 12-hour livecast, which will stream on Reddit’s YouTube channel as well as other online outlets, will feature demos of products (available at redditgifts.com) as well as comedy segments and on-air AMAs, reddit’s popular ask-anything sessions with celebrities and other notable personalities. Reddit plans to begin announcing its talent participants -- which will include musicians, actors and “maybe even former heads of state,” the company tells The Hollywood Reporter -- and product lineups in the coming weeks, and says that it is working with nonprofit organizations to include public service announcements in its broadcast.

“We decided to give people a way to experience the holiday chaos without having to venture outside,” the company tells THR. “We hope it will become an annual Thanksgiving tradition, like the Macy’s Parade and the Detroit Lions losing.”

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A Flock Of Seagulls Van Containing $70,000 In Equipment Stolen In California

Legendary eighties band A Flock Of Seagulls have lost $70,000 worth of stage equipment and computer files for frontman Mike Score's upcoming solo album after a bandit stole their rented 15-passenger Ford van from a hotel parking lot in California.

Score reveals the theft occurred at around 2am on Sunday as he and his bandmates slept at the Comfort Inn in Downey. They called the police when they awoke and realized their vehicle had been taken.? The police are now using hotel surveillance footage to track down the suspect, who was shown jumping out of the passenger seat of another car and breaking into their white van before driving off. (see Below)

Score is convinced the band was followed from their performance in Bellflower as the robber is reportedly shown on tape heading straight for the stars' vehicle, which contained a keyboard, two Fender Telecaster electric guitars and a customized drum kit, among other instruments and equipment.

The theft is all the more heartbreaking for Score because the singer had left hard drives full of new tracks for his debut solo release in the van.

He tells the Los Angeles Daily News, "We were pretty close to the end (of the recording process). It's 18 months of work just basically thrown into the trash because some people don't have a real life and have to steal from others. People who do this kind of thing will never have a real life; I think karma in the end will come around and take whatever they have got."

Despite the robbery, the I Ran (So Far Away) singers managed to press ahead with a planned show at the Concerts on the Green event in nearby Woodland Hills on Sunday, using rented instruments and technical equipment.

Source: http://www.starpulse.com/news/Joe_Bowers/2013/07/23/a_flock_of_seagulls_van_containing_700?ref_src=news_rss

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Deep Ellum Brewing Co. is hosting the 2nd Annual Labor of Love on Sept 1st, 2013 from 6pm ? 10pm!

Forty+ Texas Home Brewers have what it takes to brew home brew that they want YOU to drink on one of our favorite Holiday weekends, Labor Day! We celebrate the brewing contributions to all of its workers. Come drink, vote!, enjoy your with your friends and meet new ones as we host yet another epic, Labor of Love Home Brew Competition at Deep Ellum Brewing Co.

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PS4 records last 15 minutes of gameplay continuously, confirms Sony

• Posted July 22nd, 2013 at 21:54 EDT by Matt Fernandez

Elation! Sony has cleared up confusion over how much gameplay your PlayStation 4 will continually be recording.

The confusion began earlier this month when Neil Brown, the head of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's Research and Development division, said PS4 will continually record the last 'several minutes' of your gameplay.

Some mistook what Neil said as seven minutes while others thought that several could mean less, but lucky for us gamers nothing has changed! PS4 will continually record the last 15 minutes of your gameplay to share on PlayStation Network, Ustream, and other social media channels as was announced at the PS4 reveal in February.

Were you worried that Sony was backpedaling the social features of the PS4? Are you psyched to share gameplay with your friends? Let us know in the comments below.

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