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Gates Expresses Surprise Over IE8 Secrecy
eldavojohn writes "Shortly following the frustrations of IE7, Gates claims that he is unaware that IE8 Secrecy has been alienating developers. Ten influential bloggers met with Bill on Tuesday and asked Gates questions about why they are no longer receiving information on IE. From Molly Holzschlag's blog: 'Something seems to have changed, where there is no messaging now for the last six months to a year going out on the IE team. They seem to have lost the transparency that they had. This conversation [between Web developers and the IE team] seems to have been pretty much shut down, and I'm very concerned as to why that is.' To which Bill replied: 'I'll have to ask [IE general manager] Dean [Hachamovitch] what the hell is going on, I mean, we're not, there's not like some deep secret about what we're doing with IE.'"
Hate to play devils advocate but I think with ie 7 they have made much improvement, especially as far as speed and memory, Firefox is getting to the point it's to bloated, memory leaks etc, sometimes When I have 5-10 tabs open my computer crawls. too many built in "features" that should be add-ons The "Zones" for trusted sites in IE drives me nuts though, there should be 2 trusted and blocked. You should be able to choose the default out of those 2 options (to block everything not white listed or allow everything not blacklisted). The reason I use firefox (on windows)is not because it doesn't use much memory (uses more IMO and is slower) but because of Adblock Plus, and no "Zones" or Active X bs , Active X should only be used for one thing Windows Update, get rid of trusted zones. Opera has both beat with memory and speed , even built in torrent downloader (which is kind of sucky IMO.) On windows however, Opera is the fastest and uses the least memory my conscious is clear using a TPB torrented copy. Someday when I am working fulltime, done with school I will pay for it.