Comments on: Opera sues Microsoft in Europe http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14330 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: f4te http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14330/comment-page-1#comment-268229 f4te Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:35:01 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14330#comment-268229 "Just after the announcement that Opera are complaining to the European Union about Internet Explorer’s dodgy standards support, Chris Wilson reports that an internal build of Internet Explorer 8 passes the Acid2 test." - http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid2/ Care to investigate? “Just after the announcement that Opera are complaining to the European Union about Internet Explorer’s dodgy standards support, Chris Wilson reports that an internal build of Internet Explorer 8 passes the Acid2 test.”
- http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid2/

Care to investigate?

]]> By: The Angry Offender http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14330/comment-page-1#comment-235847 The Angry Offender Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:15:42 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14330#comment-235847 Windows isn't Linux. Windows isn’t Linux.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14330/comment-page-1#comment-235146 Reader's Write Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:13:27 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14330#comment-235146 "It’s hard to get Firefox without SOMETHING to browse the Internet in the first place" What is missing from Windows is a good package management tool. In Fedora, I would just type "yum install firefox" and a minute later the program is installed and ready to use. There is also a GUI, which lets you browse available software. An absence of a package management tool is partly responsible for spyware that windows users are getting. When I need to visit tons of sites to get software installed on Windows, I just need to tell the package manager to install the software I want, and it will get and install it for me. “It’s hard to get Firefox without SOMETHING to browse the Internet in the first place”

What is missing from Windows is a good package management tool. In Fedora, I would just type “yum install firefox” and a minute later the program is installed and ready to use. There is also a GUI, which lets you browse available software.

An absence of a package management tool is partly responsible for spyware that windows users are getting. When I need to visit tons of sites to get software installed on Windows, I just need to tell the package manager to install the software I want, and it will get and install it for me.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14330/comment-page-1#comment-235145 Reader's Write Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:12:55 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14330#comment-235145 M$ designed IE that way so it was bound to the OS. M$ designed IE that way so it was bound to the OS.

]]> By: The Angry Offender http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14330/comment-page-1#comment-235069 The Angry Offender Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:03:23 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14330#comment-235069 Internet Explorer is not really even a program. It's primarily just a big collection of COM components that are reused throughout almost everything in Windows, and if one was to truly rip all Internet Explorer components from the OS, it wouldn't even work at all. IE is nice to have when you set up Windows. It's hard to get Firefox without SOMETHING to browse the Internet in the first place (I hit this with an old Mac; it didn't have Stuffit Expander and it DID have IE, but because there was no program on the Mac to generate required resource forks and tear apart MacBinary files or similar, I was stuck with a chicken-and-egg situation that eventually lead to me tossing the stupid thing out.) Internet Explorer is not really even a program. It’s primarily just a big collection of COM components that are reused throughout almost everything in Windows, and if one was to truly rip all Internet Explorer components from the OS, it wouldn’t even work at all.

IE is nice to have when you set up Windows. It’s hard to get Firefox without SOMETHING to browse the Internet in the first place (I hit this with an old Mac; it didn’t have Stuffit Expander and it DID have IE, but because there was no program on the Mac to generate required resource forks and tear apart MacBinary files or similar, I was stuck with a chicken-and-egg situation that eventually lead to me tossing the stupid thing out.)

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