Japanese IE7 AU delay

[alphamale]

full story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20061104/tc_cmp/193501761

those of you that have been following the IEblog latest, will know that RD and others caused quite a stir in accusing Microsoft in being racist due to their illogical reasoning in delaying the Auto Updates to Japan until the "Spring".

ie7 blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/200....aspx#comments

[alphamale]

Give this story legs people, lets try and keep it alive long enough for it to make the Japanese native press.

there's a Digg here: http://digg.com/software/Microsoft_A...st_the_Japanse (complete with typos )

If you have a website, a blog or whatever, link to the Yahoo/techweb story

[Lidador]

Got my digg. Let's all help the news go up on digg!

[alphamale]

i see the story made a racism sub-category in a new site. http://www.einnews.com/japan/newsfee...4064&offset=25

unfortunately its only an RSS feed, and a subscription only site , but the snowball is rolling.

[DavyBUK]

There is a debate about the delay on Slashdot here......quite a lot of comments

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?si...47208&from=rss

[DavyBUK]

RD made Yahoo News too

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20061104/tc_cmp/193501761

[Rubber Duck]

It looks as though Microsoft is going to be facing a rear guard action shortly.

There seems to be evidence that unofficial local language version are already being distributed. Some of these may also be cracked versions. By leaving the stage open to rip-off competitors, Microsoft's entire marketing strategy seems to be dropping to bits.

[DavyBUK]

Also on an Australian IT news site

http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=41702

[alphamale]

Well it certainly looks like we got their attention.

MS announced this on their blog:

Finally, the other big question I am seeing is about the rollout schedule for Japan. Specifically, why isn’t the Japanese market receiving IE7 via AU until this spring? The Japanese market faced unique challenges due to their highly decentralized IT organizations. Our customers and partners in Japan told us this added to the time required to get ready for IE7. We listened to them and decided to hold off AU distribution in Japan until further readiness activities could be completed. Simply put, Japan faced challenges that we did not see in the North American or European markets. In the mean time users in all markets can download IE7 in all the languages we’ve released.


alas, no climb down.

read more: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/200...c-updates.aspx