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IE6 SP1 Will Be Last Standalone Version
mokiejovis writes "Program manager Brian Countryman stated that "as part of the OS, IE will continue to evolve, but there will be no future standalone installations. IE6 SP1 is the final standalone installation." See the Microsoft TechNet article." Several of the people submitting this story have come up with elaborate theories about why: killing competition, etc. etc. I think the truth is just that Microsoft intends to integrate DRM very tightly with their OS and browser, and they're aren't going to try to backport that to, say, Win98, so they just aren't going to release new versions of their browser for old, DRM-less operating systems. In the future server-side browser detection may be more about detecting whether the browser supports the DRM your "web service" uses than what version of Javascript or CSS the browser supports.
Uh oh! Better fire up the FUD-generator!
Homestarrunner.net -- It's Dot Com!
One day Captain Kirk was maiming his cock with a horseshoe when suddenly Mr. Spock ran up to him and shoved his pointy ear up his butt. "What is this for!" the fag captain said. "FAGS FOR YOU AALL!L!!!" the ancient alien howled as suddenly he farted and Captain Kirk twirled around in a daze and his foreskin twisted and his kidney stones turned into wooden beads. He pulled out his pistol and shot lasers at his chastity belt and suddenly he hurdled his dick into Captain Kirk"s bellybutton and it tore his flesh while Spock fagged his stomach. Kirk hollered out loud and Mr. Spock threw his shoes to the floor and wrinkled his penis until Kirk bellowed out to make it stop. Awful turds whizzed around the ship and suddenly a giant fag appeared out side and the U.S.S. Enterprise went up his butt. "Oh what the hell have you gotten us into NOW!" Captain Kirk said as he oozed a condom back on his dick and put his panties back on. "OOH!H!!!!!!" Mr. Spock started fagging him again and shoved his phazer up his butt. He dissolved his glands and exploded his turds and finally a queer klingon hurdled through the door and smashed Kirk with his butt hairs. A maniac sucked his dick and suddenly Mr. Spock fagged Kirk so hard that his intestoids burst open and he died. THE END.
she ha her own post code!
Ah, you mean grammar. Correctness of gramaticalness? ROFL.
Anybody working on this?
We got to punish these fuckers for making this shit.
This is the very reason why Lindows and others simoila to it MUST be embraced NOW! Now that M$ has paid off Netscape, NOTHING stands in their way...unless we PUT it there! And frankly, Lindows looks like our best shot!
One Nation under GOD.
for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
I'm sure Hitler said lots of things most people would agree with, and not find offensive until they are told that Hitler said it.
Case in point: [loose translation from the original German]
"Whenever the name of me is used in an argument in a linear discussion of many people, the interesting content of that discussion will be at an end." - A. Hitler
God is real unless declared integer