WGA validation no longer necessary for IE 7

according to a post on Microsoft's IE blog, this WGA check is going away with the latest IE7 update, at least for Windows XP users.

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I am sure everyone who wanted to try out or use (yes, there are some who prefer IE7) IE7, have already found a work around and are using it now. So, I don't believe that this move is actually going to increase IE7s market share. not unless there were tons of lazy users who wanted to use IE7, but just couldn't get themselves to use a patch. Although that's highly unlikely, it's not an impossibility (shit happens... ).