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IE8 May Be End of the Line For Internet Explorer
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy reports on rumors that IE8 may be Internet Explorer's swan song: 'IE8 is the last version of the Internet Explorer Web browser,' Kennedy writes. 'It seems that Microsoft is preparing to throw in the towel on its Internet Explorer engine once and for all.' And what will replace it? Some are still claiming that Microsoft will go with WebKit, which is used by Safari and Chrome. The WebKit story, Kennedy contends, could be a feint and that Microsoft will instead adopt Gazelle, Microsoft Research's brand-new engine that thinks like an OS. 'This new engine will supposedly be more secure than Firefox or even Chrome, making copious use of sandboxing to keep its myriad plug-ins isolated and the overall browser process model protected.'" The sticking point will be what Microsoft does about compatibility for ActiveX apps.
Oh wait...
...they're going to buy Mozilla. Mark my words. :P
It is by my will alone my thoughts acquire motion; it is by the juice of the coffee bean that the thoughts acquire speed
Given their history, this could be pretty funny.
Because Balmer frowns on extramarital sex between software components
Yes, especially since the emancipation proclamation was nearly 130 years ago.
ActiveX applications have no more "connections" than any other Win32 app.
But I was looking at ActiveX's facebook page and it had like a million friends in common with Windows - isn't that a deep connection?
How can you kill that which does not live?
By using sudo: ...
sudo kill -9
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein
ActiveX applications have no more "connections" than any other Win32 app.
But I was looking at ActiveX's facebook page and it had like a million friends in common with Windows - isn't that a deep connection?
You're probably thinking of eHarmony.
More Twoson than Cupertino
You've clearly never tried to kill a zombie process.
This is Slashdot . Everyone around here knows that ActiveX must be married to the OS in order to have plausible cause to bundle the browser with the OS. If it could be sandboxed to easily, a judge might get the idea to force Microsoft to dissociate both products.
> > How can you kill that which does not live?
> By using sudo: ...
> sudo kill -9
Nope. A process that isn't alive is a zombie. And kill -9 won't kill a zombie. We need a grenade_launcher command. After all, to quote the old Quake manual:
"Thou can not kill that with doth not live. But you can blow it to chunky kibbles."
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Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
Yeah, but it's also in an "it's complicated" with Trojans. Kind of a problem, really.
Try not to take me more seriously than I take myself.
A better technical explanation would be that ActiveX can lick Windows' bellybutton from the inside.
Grammar Nazi just took out a Jew?
OMG! Java is tightly integrated to the OS!
Yanno, spilling coffee on your computer is generally _not_ a good thing.
Anybody want my mod points?
DEPRECATED, motherfucker. DEPRECATED.