IE 7 will be delivered in the fourth quarter as a "high priority" update

Microsoft thinks Internet Explorer 6 is so bad that they have decided to make Internet Explorer 7 a "high priority" update.

Microsoft plans to automatically push Internet Explorer 7 to Windows XP users when the browser update is ready later this year.

IE 7 will be delivered in the fourth quarter as a "high priority" update via Automatic Updates in Windows XP, Gary Schare, Microsoft's director of IE product management, said in an interview Tuesday.