Slipstreaming comes to Microsoft's IE8
THE VOLE WILL try to assauge developer wrath and end user impatience with its upcoming Internet Explorer 8 by bunging new end user features into the Beta 2 release, due in August, it seems.
Although having kept rather quiet about what will and what will not be part of its new browser, Ars Technica reckons Mighty-Soft has committed itself to supporting slipstreaming, something sorely lacking in IE7 for Windows.
Slipstreaming, whereby updates, patches and service packs can be integrated into the installation files of their original software allowing for direct installation is actually a current feature in IE8 Beta 1, which can be slipstreamed into Vista RTM, Vista SP1, and Server 2008.
The main advantage with the new feature, however, will be its speed. Users unfortunate enough to have Vista can console themselves with the fact that using IE8 and Windows Automated Install Kit (WAIK), they’ll be able to incorporate IE8 into the image file of the original operating system in just under a quarter of an hour.
Still, with interoperability issues still at large, there probably won’t be a mad rush on slipstreaming the Vole’s new browser for a little while yet. But somewhere downstream, its probably a feature that will come in mighty handy. µ
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I may have misunderstood this article but it seems to me that while this feature could be useful for corporate tech support, where they may want to do all their new installs from a customised image, for an end user it implies an assumption that they're going to have to re-install their entire OS multiple times.

It seems now that for many people, who have only ever used Windows (whatever version), spontaneous destruction of the OS is normal and to be expected.

To use an automobile analogy, if MS were making automibiles, they'd be suppliying a tow-truck with each one.
When you could easily use Frontmotion Firefox .msi files that support silent and remote installing to have Firefox on the new machine in under 4 seconds :)
And "slipstreaming" a copy of Opera or Firefox into an unattended XP installation takes just under 10 seconds, whee, what an improvement.

As if IE7 doesn't have worse problems they should be working at.
nLite lets you slipstream IE7 as easily as simply selecting the IE7 setup file and clicking ok - see http://www.nliteos.com/faq.html#Q33
Well vista hardly runs or installs properly with the software as supplied on the originally dvd.

Meddling in this fashion with such a duffer of an os will almost certainly end in more tears.

Should have called it sh*t streaming.

--just adding in more useless bloaty crap....
Can anyone tell me whoever is a user of the current beta what the memory usage is for 1 window I prefer to have results from actually users than current reviews of it.
IE7 with 1 window open uses around 70mb occasionally with just the download window 160mb has been used ????