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IE The Great Microsoft Blunder?
JordanL writes "Hot on the heels of the beta rollouts of IE 7, comes an editorial from John Dvorak declaring IE the biggest mistake Microsoft has ever made. From the article: 'All the work that has to go into keeping the browser afloat is time that could have been better spent on making Vista work as first advertised [...] If you were to put together a comprehensive profit-and-loss statement for IE, there would be a zero in the profits column and billions in the losses column--billions.'"
except now with ClearType on by default, all the text looks bold, so many of our text links simply look like regular text. Nice UI move there, MS.
Maybe if you start making links blue and underlined as they are supposed to be, and not just bold, you won't have that problem. Nice design move there, parent.
The word "troll" has always bugged me. Of course there are pranksters who say stuff like "Mother Teresa was actually a Satanist" just to get a response. But 90% of the time I see the word "troll" used, it's by some mentally lazy person who finds it easier to dismiss other people's opinions as malicious dishonesty.
I have never indulged in trolling. But everytime I say something that people don't want to hear, that's what they assume I'm doing.
he must have given you some of that crack he's on
Because they suxor at what they do.
Because even micro$oft developers know not to program in .NET.
IMAGE VERIFICATION IS EVIL!
I think a new batch of users got their first run at Mod points this week... There have been some absolute travesties of moderation going on this week.
Who did what now?
So, are you a troll if you call a troll a troll?
Er... you can turn sideways you know.
If your body is more than 16" from rear to front, you are *extremely overweight*. Either that or an American, in which case you're about average.
Because .NET doesn't scale. That's why they're having so much trouble with Vista.
what about the dvorak keyboard?
Expanding a vast wasteland since 1996.
Like if the economy was everything in the Universe.
Photons from the Sun certainly don't give a shit about if their crashing on your face or onto the fourth planet around Aldebaran is economical or not.
There are many things besides the economy in the world; trouble is, little peons like you will swallow their master's rethoric about the economy hook, line and sinker and start harping about it as if it was the ONLY THING.
Sure, it's the only thing to someone who does some fiddling about with markets and such, but to everyone else, it's just another thing besides their lives.
And what's wrong with producing and selling locally? At least, you don't haul trinkets 3000 miles away, while destroying the roads with those enormous trucks and belching earth-choking exhaust fumes!
No, little jokers like you who can't look at the whole picture before they do anything and carefully weighs the ultimate consequences of one acts certainly are a poor thing to use for voting citizens. This is why things like Bush get elected.