Auto Updates for Internet Explorer

Finally the news that web designers have been waiting for - Microsoft recently announced that it will start auto updating Internet Explorer. Chrome and Firefox have been auto updating its browser but IE was lagging behind its rivals in this respect. IE's old browsers are a real headache for designers as catering to old versions of IE means adding extra code to website stylesheets. Thus far auto update has only been rolled out in Australia & Brazil but more countries will be added in the near future. Microsoft aim to have all users running the latest version of IE as soon as possible. The web is safer when latest versions are used as security flaws are often dealt with in later versions. This move by Microsoft will allow people like me to use the latest coding techniques like HTML5 in our designs and will cut down the traffic coming from browsers like IE9. It isn't all good news though as Microsoft's latest version IE9 isn't compatible with Windows XP so those users will be limited to using IE8. But it is a good move forward for the software giant and I certainly look forward to being able to design in HTML5 as the markup is less messy and more advanced.