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Microsoft Vista, IE7 Banned By U.S. DOT
An anonymous reader writes "According to a memo being reported on by Information week, the US Department of Transportation has issued a moratorium on upgrading Microsoft products. Concerns over costs and compatability issues has lead the federal agency to prevent upgrades from XP to Vista, as well as to stop users from moving to IE 7 and Office 2007. As the article says, 'In a memo to his staff, DOT chief information officer Daniel Mintz says he has placed "an indefinite moratorium" on the upgrades as "there appears to be no compelling technical or business case for upgrading to these new Microsoft software products. Furthermore, there appears to be specific reasons not to upgrade."'"
Well they should be, cause they're so friggin ugly.
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IE7 sucks like shit, other than it's a copy from Firefox, it has numerous issues with other product mainly Outlook 2003 and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
It is irrational to install IE7 without testing it with other software, adding too much securities can seriously impair web base application and if you deploy this on a large number of user that uses those web base application, better get ready to do overtime getting that first stupid setting setup page and all the pop-up and active x blocker done, the user wont do it.
Windows Me, meet Windows Vista. byebye M$
You don't drive your car forward with your head cranned all the way to the left, so why would you drive it backwards like that? Your drivers ed instructor was an idiot. Try this: place your right hand on the headrest of the passenger seat, and look over your right shoulder, down the middle of the car. Voila! You've now mastered properly backing up. Paralell parking should now be a breeze.
moox. for a new generation.
I'm not sure that IE7 is all that married to the kernel. After all, if you don't like it (e.g. your system freezes as some IE7 users report, or you can no longer get to your on-line bookie <<<<<< bank because it doesn't run on anything but IE6) you just go to Add/Remove Programs and uninstall IE7. IE6 pops right back up and you're back where you started. You should know this already since that's likely exactly what you did. You sure can't remove IE6 that way, however.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
No. You back up by looking over your right shoulder (for left-hand drive cars). Stop being both dangerous on the road and an asshole please.