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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. Re:But... by NineNine · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Did Google ever pick a side in the browser wars?

    Smart businesspeople would never call it a "war" or choose to pick sides. Just support the big ones, whatever they are. The customers are important. Google could care less what browser their customers use. Only geeks care about "the browser war".

  2. Re:But... by Tetravus · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Only geeks care about "the browser war".

    Well, geeks and people who have to design two or three different implementations of a web page so it will show up correctly for all visitors. Oh, and the people who have to pay those developers who are now putting in overtime... and the content authors whose work is framed by the pages that the developers make (and want to appear equally professional to all visitors)... and maybe the investors in the company that hired the developers who want to get to IPO and get their money out as soon as possible.

    But yeah, mostly just geeks care about that stuff ;-)

  3. This is news? by MeanMF · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah I'm sure the Microsoft folks will be devastated if a lot of people download and use their software....

  4. Isnt this exactly what Microsoft intended.... by slashnar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is everyone here this dumb?? This is exactly what was intended when the Administration kit was made. Microsoft would want everyone out there(Amazon, eBay, Apple for gods sakes) to be pushing out a customized version of IE7. Dont u get it??

  5. Not really news... by compupc1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How is this news? The IE has been around for years and years. I remember using it to customize IE 5.5. It may have been around even earlier than that. And as to Microsoft somehow being upset, please look past the knee-jerk reaction and notice that the IE Blog, from Microsoft, actually praises the Google release, and links to their download page. This is what people are SUPPOSED to do with the IEAK. The article is really trying to make a big deal about something that's not...

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  6. Re:Activation? by SnprBoB86 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is an extremely unscientific measurement.

    1) The order in which you perform this test could influence which DLLs are loaded in which processes
    2) Some applications may allocate memory in chunks or do other funky memory management
    3) Which pages were used? Was it the same for each browser?
    4) Do these pages include Flash, Java, or similar content which may indicate fault of plug-in rather than browser
    5) prob a million more, it's late, I'm tired

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