Microsoft has announced they will now be starting to auto upgrade Windows customers to the latest version of Internet Explorer available for their PC. Starting January, Microsoft will start forcing costumers to update from older versions of Internet Explorer. If you have Automatic Updates enabled in Windows, the updates of IE will occur in a seamless, Chrome-like experience.

This means that costumers using Windows XP on their PC will be forced to upgrade from IE 6/7 to IE 8. Anyone on Windows Vista and Windows 7 will be forced to upgrade to IE 9.

Microsoft may have just made developers lives a little easier. Eventually this will mean we won’t have to support IE 6/7.

Find out more here.