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Microsoft Is Planning To Renew IE Development

Posted by timothy on from the maybe-they'll-add-tabs-this-time-around dept.

jm.one writes "In his weblog the Mozilla developer Gervase Markham (aka Gerv) points out that Microsoft is re-constituting the Windows IE team. You can save Mozillazine's bandwidth(they've been /.ed every day this week) by directly checking out this post at Dave Massy's WebLog at MSDN. They even have set up an IE Feedback section in their channel9 wiki."

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  1. Oh my by Deltawolf · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh my, come to add more bugs into IE already? Wasn't there already enough? If Microsoft begins to develop it again could see some improvements in speed and bulkyness, perhaps some better parsing, etc. It could be a turn for the better. New features will be nice but with new features you know MS, more bugs. So I believe I will stick with Firefox.

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  2. Never new it had stopped by t_allardyce · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    WTF!? you mean they actually stopped developing that POS? I understand someone dumping developement on something because its so fundamentally messy and flawed and crap but really thats leaving people hanging surely that should have fixed some of the more major issues before stopping developement. If IE could even just get basic CSS working I would be happy, they dont even have to fix the security holes - I dont use it, but most people do and that means sites have to work with it.

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  3. Re:Not really. by vandan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I also call bullshit.
    Me thinks you are perhaps upset because you see others happy to use a product that you can't understand, so telling everyone that their choice is inferior makes up for your lack of ability.
    I bet you're one of the users who use Word to store all your pictures, right?

  4. Re:Longhorn even later? by Shaklee39 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You are missing the point. The longer they delay, the better their product becomes, and the linux zealots will have nothing to grip about besides Microsofts business practices. Oh wait, this is slashdot, even when longhorn comes out we will still see BSOD jokes...

  5. Re:Longhorn even later? by master_p · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You are talking like you know the design and the internals of IE. Could you tell us how do you know that ? And if you are not a Microsoft employee, can you provide a link to the IE design documents ?