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"Genuine advantage" often breaks updates on any non-legit copy of Windows. Updates to IE usually come through Windows Update.

Non-legit Windows is in 2nd place and has larger market share than all other non-MS OS's, per this:

http://www.osnews.com/story/21035/Ballmer_Linux_Bigger_Compe...

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Last time I checked, "Genuine advantage" validation was not required for installing newer IE, as well as critical updates. It was, for a time, but then Microsoft let installing never versions of IE regardless of Genuine advantage.

The linked article doesn't provide any evidence for correlation of pirated Windows and outdated Windows(or IE).

True, but pirated Windows does not allows you to update automatically, and does not updates IE for you. Now, one can always download newer IE from Microsoft's website and manually install it, but chances of that happening are low.

It does, last time I checked. It does not allow you to run Windows Update manually, though.

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