Microsoft says "Oops! My Bad" and Reverts

I've tried hard to like IE7, but I just can't.  Unfortunately there are times I have no choice but to use it.  For instance, if I want to use the Birds Eye feature of Live Local maps, it won't work unless I use IE.  I also have to use it at work. 

One of the most annoying things IE7 does is that any time there's an embedded object (like a Flash applet), the applet won't work right away.  Instead, it says, "Click to Activate" which is just retarded.  I don't mean that as a pejorative either.  It is something that must have required mental retardation to come up with.

Thankfully, Microsoft realized after 3 days (that's Microsoft time...it's a year and a half to you and me) that it was really stupid and are removing it, assuming that we know what we're clicking on and don't need Big Brother Bill to to protect us from our own clicks.

It’s important (and cool) to note that this change will require no modifications to existing webpages, and no new actions for developers creating new pages. We are simply reverting to the old behavior. Once Internet Explorer is updated, all pages that currently require “click to activate” will no longer require the control to be activated. They’ll just work.

IEBlog : IE Automatic Component Activation (Changes to IE ActiveX Update)