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p2pnet.net News:- Here’s a selection of headlines from Google News as of around 9:00 pm Pacific.
The subject? Microsoft Explorer, known colloquially as IE.
Microsoft’s internet browser gets caught in its own web
Guardian, UK – 2 hours ago
Here’s an interesting question: why is Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) so bad? Not only is it outdated and tired compared with …
Why I dumped Internet Explorer
CNET News.com, United States – Oct 1, 2004
After months waiting for Microsoft to give me a reason to remain loyal, I finally dumped Internet Explorer for the Firefox Web browser last week. …
Google waiting in the wings to topple mighty Microsoft
The Scotsman, UK – Sep 30, 2004
COULD Google become the new Microsoft? A year ago I would have dismissed the idea as preposterous, but now I am not so sure. First …
Browser Wars, Part II?
InternetWeek.com – Sep 30, 2004
By Mark Glaser, TechWeb.com. Back in the mid-’90s, they called it the Browser Wars: Netscape Navigator vs. Microsoft Internet Explorer. …
Planning to dump IE? Think again
CNET News.com, United States – Sep 30, 2004
For many people, using a non-Microsoft browser such as Firefox is now a must for secure Web surfing–but most still keep a copy of Internet Explorer around …
IE–embraced, extended, extinct?
ZDNet.com – Sep 30, 2004
There’s no doubt the Internet will continue to make its mark in the world of business and technology. Its maintained is position for the past year. …
Competitor Makes Dent In Microsoft’s Browser
Hartford Courant (subscription), CT – Sep 30, 2004
What if there were only one kind of window – and no matter where your house was or what view you had, that was the only window you could use? …
How difficult is it to discard Internet Explorer?
Software Journal, India – Sep 30, 2004
Recent months have been terrible for Internet Explorer. Their have been tons of bug and security flaw reported. So much so, many …
Minding the Search Engine Business
Traffick – Sep 30, 2004
Microsoft just swears that it hasn’t given up on Internet Explorer and that it’s really, really important to the future of Microsoft, to the next version of …
Enuff said.
October 3rd, 2004 at 8:43 am
The biggest flaw with IE and windows in general is that
as the user you are prevented from knowing what exactly is installed.
Several layers of obscuration and undocumented features
make it near impossible to tell what you have on your computer.
Much less which version of what libraries.
You have executables and dlls and registry information all over.
There’s no way to tell what does what and how.
When you uninstall software some things remain.
Even if you try to remove IE it is near impossible to remove everything
since windows depends on IE components to run.
Windows is a nightmare of cataclysmic proportion.
The worst thing is that you get used to it.
I can’t wait to find a linux desktop manager that feels right.
And for windows apps, there’s always wine (windows emulator).
I bet the emulator works better than windows already…
October 3rd, 2004 at 12:09 pm
“there’s always wine (windows emulator)”
WINE (W.ine I.s N.ot an E.mulator)
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Some people mean by that that Wine must emulate each processor instruction of the Windows application. This is plain wrong. As Wine’s name says: “Wine Is Not an Emulator”: Wine does not emulate the Intel x86 processor. It will thus not be as slow as Wabi which, since it is not running on a x86 Intel processor, also has to emulate the processor. Windows applications that do not make system calls will run just as fast as on Windows (no more no less).
http://www.winehq.com/site/myths
TT
October 4th, 2004 at 1:41 am
What???
I’ve been systematically removing MSIE (and the security hole it represents) for many, many years — since Windows 98 started forcing the “Active Desktop” BS.
Just go here, and get it free:
http://litepc.com/