It is also now available for direct download and install at MS:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/ie-11-worldwide-languages
A 29+MB file, and a quick, seamless install over IE10
preserving all settings and appearances. Very nicely done.
I would like to note that the bolded is
not true. I was dealing with just that problem all afternoon. Specifically, that it sporadically would get ActiveX filtering turned on (when it was off in IE10), on some machines, and on all of them, seems to lose the user-added compatibility list. Now, TBF,
there's no excuse, IMO, for needing either of those features, in a web app used in 2013, but those are very much browser settings.
Is MS doing some kind of phased roll-out, or is it based on update settings? I've seen it in the list of important updates, but unchecked, on several PCs, but just today have also had people who had just been upgraded to it, unbeknownst to them (or me, until maybe the 3rd person with the same problems).