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MSIE 7 May Beat Longhorn Out The Gate
Quantum Jim writes "InternetNews.com reports that a major upgrade for Microsoft Internet Explorer may be imminent. Apparently in response to the recent mass migration away from MSIE, top Microsoft developers have been soliciting for improvements in the old browser at a web log and at Channel 9, an aggregate journal previously discussed by /.. InternetNews.com speculates that improvements could possibly include support for tabbed browsing, better security, more PNG and CSS compliance, and RSS integration (which Firefox and Opera Mail already support). Go competition!"
It will be based on the Mozilla source!
MSIE 7 May Beat Longhorn Out The Gate... But I use Mozilla and the bell rang a long time ago.
I thought IE and the Window OS were so tightly integrated that they were virtually the same thing? Do you mean IE was actually a separate program all along?
And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.
from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15
My prediction: lynx will make a comeback and overtake them all!
Strike me down... ah fuck it, you all know the quote.
Since they integrated it, upgrades to IE become upgrades to the OS. I'm sure marketing would much rather hold out till longhorn hits. It'd make thier job of selling a bloated, complex upgrade that much easier. I tell you, I wouldn't want to be the guy who had to come up with reasons why you should upgrade to Windows ME.
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'Anyone who uses Internet Explorer is using Windows'
/Applications/|grep Internet\ Explorer
blanquita:~ pmohr$ uname -a
Darwin blanquita.local 7.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.4.0: Wed May 12 16:58:24 PDT 2004; root:xnu/xnu-517.7.7.obj~7/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
blanquita:~ pmohr$ ls -l
drwxrwxr-x 3 root admin 102 31 Jul 21:44 Internet Explorer.app
Hmm?
Just use HTML tables!!!!
*duck*
(No flames please, yes I'm kidding. Sort of.)
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Well I was going to make a comment making fun of "unclear, ambiguous" by saying something like:
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"To the point that there are so many unclear, ambiguous, redundant, repetitive, redundant, repetitive
But now I'm worried I'll be wrong about something and someone will call me out on it.
You mean like:
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There are 11 types of people in the world: those who can count in binary, and those who can't.
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
As Schroeder puts it "So don't bother installing a Carnot engine in your car; while it would increase your gas mileage, you would be passed on the highway by pedestrians."
Or to put it another way...
Shall we take the Car? Not!
I agree, I submitted a bad link. I was referring to the recent loss of MSIE's market share to Firefox and other alternatives.
Sorry!
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
- Jerome Klapka Jerome
This is great, and just in time, because Expl... Ooooh, lookie! A flying pig!
you mean minus the cute weather girl?
"If Doom 3 is so important to you, please pay for it, ID software will have more money, they will spend it, butterfly-effect."
Exactly. John Carmack will buy a new Ferrari. One of the Ferrari factory workers will get a bonus and decide to strike out on his own pizza shop. A business man from America will happen upon his shop while on vacation and persuade him to bring his pizza to America and start a new franchise. Enzo Pizza will invade the market with a higher quality, lower price pizza that will enliven competition in the pizza delivery market. A younger gamer playing at a Doom 3 LAN party will order one of these pizzas while saving $1.73 over the pizza he would have bought from Papa Johns.
Everyone wins.
I have a website. It's about Macs.