Microsoft has released a "reliability update" to stop the new
pre-release
Internet Exporer 8 browser crashing the Windows 7 Beta
operating system.
"The update will improve Internet Explorer's reliability for
users running the
Windows 7 Beta. The update is now available via Windows Update,
and can also be downloaded via Microsoft Update", said Microsoft in
a
blog.
The update addresses problems such as "crashes, hangs, and
memory leaks", said Microsoft. The blog has attracted a stream of
comments from users explaining how they have been hit by the
problems.
Microsoft said, "We found that approximately 10% of customers
who had downloaded the Windows 7 Beta had experienced some type of
reliability problem in IE8. We also found that a small number of
users were experiencing crashes on a more regular basis, and that
about 1.5% of all Internet Explorer sessions had encountered a
crash."
It added, "This is relatively good for a pre-release version of
Internet Explorer running on a beta operating system. We were also
pleased to see that the new IE8 Crash Recovery feature was
successfully helping customers recover from these crash situations
94% of the time."