Microsoft has updated the IE7 installer, removing the need for Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation. The move is designed to make IE7 "available as broadly as possible to all Windows users," according to a Microsoft blog.

Over the past couple of years Microsoft's Internet Explorer was steadily losing market share to competing browsers like Mozilla Firefox. The WGA validation was one extra hurdle that has prompted users (especially those who have an illegal copy of Windows) to choose an alternative browser.

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