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Will Internet Explorer 7 Have Any Impact?
John Seyton asks: "A recent posting regarding Internet Explorer 7 has me pondering what impact this next release will have on the web market. Firefox has fought hard to make a small dent in Internet Explorer's armor, to the point that we can browse most of the web with no loss of functionality, yet if Internet Explorer 7 recaptures a sizable chunk of that market share, web authors might once again create offensive 'please upgrade to Internet Explorer' web pages. Based upon the known features, what does the Slashdot community think the impact of Internet Explorer 7 will be on the web in general? Will we be forced to live a two-browser life once again?"
As long as you choose to use something other than IE, you will always live a two-browser life. Microsoft has the vast majority of the web browser market, and there's no reason to believe that will change in the near future. Microsoft has also been "embracing and extending" various standards in ways that are incompatible with other browsers for at least the past 10 years, and there's no reason to think that's going to stop either.
IE7 will not shake up the browser market in any significant way one way or the other, things will remain pretty much as they are now.
Dude,
When my friends/family/buddies buy a PC with windows on it, the VERY FIRST thing I do when they ask me to "Please fix it it's hopelessly broken" involves Ubuntu and a reformatting of the hard drive. Consequently, IE goes Poof.
"Piter, too, is dead."
No, guess I was too lucky or had good psychic skills or something to get sucked into relying on MS hype and drooling common denominator drivel so called "technology" way back when. So I won't be needing explorer 7. I tried it, DOS, then wfwg then when 95 hit I checked it out and went WTF is this manure?? I said good effin bye! It sucks man, always has sucked! Is there something about 897,654 security vulnerabilities that doesn't compute? When has it been good enough to rely on, when has it ever had any decent design attributes that were anything beyond mal-coded cheesy rip offs, designed to both suck and to trap people into using it and giving them a false sense of what computing is supposed to be about?? The few times I was forced to use it gave me the creeps quite frankly. Every single user I know who has gotten trapped into using MS and explorer has suffered, and suffered, and sweated, screamed, dumped cash at it, cursed it, upgraded, patched, thrown antivir after firewall after this or that etc, to NO AVAIL, it *still* sucks, it has NEVER gotten any better. Every new "feature" brings 10 new bugs! How long do people have to see this before they bingo to the ubersuckiness?
Not being into games that much (I prefer meatworld non cyber hobbies for "playing"), I see no use for their products, none whatsoever, and I feel sorry for people who have built their careers around such buggy insecure and mediocre crap. I think the phony scam of MS that has been foisted on the global computing public has set back computing in general by an entire generation. It is that bad. They are a greedy lying abusive and seriously incompetent company, the only thing they are good at is fraud and buncoism, normal ripoff corporate marketing "tools", taken to an unheard of level. Thoroughly a disgusting corporation.
Originally, I liked them! Just for awhile, anyway. I thought just another cool new tech company. Then I noticed...sleaziness. At first, just a little, then it became apparent that was their entire business model. Everything they do involves sleaze! They have screwed every single other business they have touched. That's sleaze. And it shows in their products.
Screw them turkeys, screw windows, screw internet explorer, screw the modern idea of successful business equals sleaze. Greed...is not good, it's a psychopathic aberration. They could offer to pay me large and serious by the hour to use their crap, and I would spit in their face and laugh. I work for a living, but my ethics aren't for sale, and I refuse to be dumbed down to their level.