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Internet Explorer Not Dead Yet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the doesn't-want-to-go-on-the-cart dept.

turnitover writes "The future's not all Firefox, Deer Park and Camino, insists Microsoft. At its Mix '06 conference in Las Vegas, reports Microsoft Watch, company execs insisted that there's a bright future for IE. They not only distributed a 'layout-complete' build of IE 7.0, but offered hints about what the new version of the browser geeks love to disdain (yes, it will include ActiveX) will include. Also shown: tools to test IE compatibility. But with what? Standards or IE 6?"

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  1. vista only? by kw · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's certainly dead if it's a Vista-exclusive

  2. Standards? by Quasar1999 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I remember when the standards were defined by Netscape and IE, basically any new feature one implemented, the other copied, and voila, a standard... Whatever happend to that type of development? It benefited everyone. Now we have a bunch of lame ass intellects defining standards but not actually implementing them, resulting in any app that does follow these new standard features to have massive memory leaks, and hacked code to get it to work...

    I want the old 'standards' war back.

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  3. Firefox is sooooo slow by Hippy-Liberal+Hater · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I tried firefox for a day and hated it. It loads so slow. Tabbed browsing was nice, but I'll be sticking with IE. Why does everyone on slash dot complain abot popups and virus, you people are supposed to be geeks, can't you figure out how to protect your systems. All thats needed is virus protection software and common sense; don't click the add that promises a larger penis ect. I have never had a virus using IE, popups went away when xp sp2 included one, guess what, no more pop ups. Ever try to use OWA on firefox, or any other browser. Windows computers havn't crashed since windows ME.