Comments on: Microsoft denies Opera lawsuit claims

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:22:41 +0000

I have never used IE on my personal computer at home (except to handle updates), and do not understand why every business I have ever worked at uses IE instead of something like Firefox which is noticeably more secure.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:41:22 +0000

I don’t use IE and I dislike the security holes in this particular browser. I would feel much better to get rid of it and have it off the computer entirely. Of course with M$’s idea of only accepting their own browser for updates is a bit of a problem but even given that, as a choice between the two, I would rather have IE and it’s code off the computer.

There is no method I have found for removing IE from Vista short of manually editing the registry to kill it.

After M$ won the browser wars of the mid 80’s, that was the end of continued fine tuning of the browser until FireFox showed if people had a choice, it would not be IE.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:46:05 +0000

They could of course provide a simple http get app to download a browser of choice. That way, there’s no need for IE. The URLs for the most popular browsers could be preprogrammed, or downloaded on demand; which ever is most suitable. I would prefer it that way. Then I would never have to use the monstrosity that is ‘Internet explorer’.

By: 24 hour man

24 hour man — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:14:26 +0000

the first version of windows 95 was the most stable windows version I have ever used and no IE. Says alot for Microsoft does’nt it.

By: Havvy

Havvy — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:47:37 +0000

…nice argument! It has been in the OS for a decade! If you kill somebody, and nobody finds out or sues you for 10 years, you are still in the wrong!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:25:44 +0000

Sure they can set a default, but you notice you can’t uninstall IE…