Potential Future Issues with Internet Explorer and Silverlight

As you may have seen recently in various IT articles - Microsoft is to start automatic updates for Internet Explorer, but only if the user has enabled automatic updating in Windows.  To ensure compatibility Access would ask that you consider disabling automatic updates, and review the benefits and compatibility issues before applying the updates within your business.  It maybe your IT department controls the updates out to individual PC's but worth consideration.

http://mashable.com/2011/12/15/ie-automatic-updates/

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/gg615599

V5 of Microsoft Silverlight has also recently been released which is used within Access FocalPoint, SelectHR and shortly Workflow Forms v2.  This also uses the automatic update process if you have this enabled.  Our current released versions are compatible with Microsoft Silverlight V4. 

Access have carried out a beta test on Silverlight 5 which didn't raise any issues but we will not be announcing full compatibility until our next release to ensure a full test has been carried out.

We just wanted to make you aware of this feature by Microsoft, to prevent your users from doing accidental upgrades of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Silverlight, which may be incompatible with the version of Access software you are currently using.  We always carry out full testing on the version of browser which is available at time of release and the browser you are using needs to be considered when upgrading software.