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Google Releases Customized IE 7

Posted by Zonk on from the they-were-bored dept.

narramissic writes "Google has released a customized version of Internet Explorer 7 that uses Google as the default search engine and provides users with the Google Toolbar and a Google homepage they can personalize. Perhaps not exactly what Microsoft intended when they released the Internet Explorer Administration Kit, which allows developers to customize IE."

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  1. HAHA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    MS pwned by their own system. Nice! FP :D

  2. Re:Hmm... by Jarjarthejedi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Google seems to be trying to put it's name on anything and everything, FireFox, IE, Dell (far as I've seen all new Dell's come with Google Toolbar and IE Google Toolbar pre-installed...and it freezes the computer if you remove one...).

    I'm just waiting for the Google burger at McDonalds, or the Google Sub, or the Google car...

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  3. Re:Hmm... by bensafrickingenius · · Score: 3, Funny

    "A certain browser named after a certain bushy animal comes to mind"

    I don't think gopher was technically a browser...

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  4. Crap? Evil? Does it really make a difference? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Why must everyone suppose everything that comes out of Microsoft is evil? Only SOME things that come out of them are evil

    Yes, but the emanations that aren't evil are merely crap that doesn't work properly.

  5. I don't get it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    How exactly is this not what Microsoft intended by making that? What retarded definition of the word "customize" would not include this?

    I'm just a bit puzzled by the need to stretch an "egg on Microsoft's face HA!" out of this.

  6. Re:Hmm... by CCFreak2K · · Score: 2, Funny

    A certain browser named after a certain bushy animal comes to mind.

    Oh, you mean this thing?

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  7. Re:not exactly what Microsoft intended? by empaler · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hell, forget about the lawsuits. They're just happy to see their browser being leveraged by other sites than their own.
    Bill: OMG, Steve! Google is redistributing our browser with a slight smear on the top with their logo! Whatever shall we do!?
    Steve: Send in the flying monkeys?

  8. Missing option by quakehead3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Optimized for Slashdot"

  9. Not flying monkeys by PixieDust · · Score: 1, Funny
    Steve would start screaming obscenities and really just make a lot of racket (perhaps throw a handy heavy object around).

    Bill: Uh, Steve?

    Steve: Oh, uh.... YYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAA!!!! DAMN STRAIGHT! YAAAAAAARRRRRRR!

    Bill: STEVE!

    Steve: Right, whew. Just got a bit excited there... *twitch* YYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *toss*

    Bill: So, I'll expect your next TPS report to have a new cover sheet, and go ahead and make sure you get a copy of that memo. Mmmmkay?

  10. Re:Just to clarify... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Good one! And I'll bet he comes back with some lame excuse blaming someone else. But it'll of course be just an escape goat. (which everybody knows is an old wise tale).

  11. Re:And of course... by RealGrouchy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah, it's so much easier for me to speculate blindly and let someone correct me than to actually do the research.

    Thanks.

    - RG>

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