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Internet Explorer Turns 15
An anonymous reader writes "Software giant Microsoft's Internet Explorer turned 15 years old on Monday. The company recently said it would launch the Internet Explorer 9 public beta version on September 15, 2010. The software giant launched the first version of the browser, Internet Explorer 1, on August 16, 1995. It was a revised version of Spyglass Mosaic, which Microsoft had licensed from Spyglass Inc."
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do you remember what it was like being 15? i bet ie's plotting to get opera in bed or something :)
oh man i'm getting old... shoudl've been "plotting on operas, firefoxes and chromes asses"... this way it'd be insightful at least...
All my liberal friends think I'm a conservative, all my conservative friends think I'm a liberal.
yes but we all not what happened to Netscape. We can only pray IE suffers the safe fate.
That it gets abandoned, and a team of open source coders picks it up?
He was also much older and much thinner than IE...
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I would very much mind, IE9 on any platforms is asking for insanity.
Does that mean we can charge it as an adult now?
It was included in my Professional edition... either via the disk or a covert update (because I didn't see anything about the DVD maker in the update summaries.)
Which brings me to another issue I have with Win7... I removed the Libraries and Favorites links from Explorer and they keep pushing them back in during updates. I wish there was a layer of user settings that even Microsoft has to abide by.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
Hardly anyone has upgraded? I don't even think I know anybody personally that hasn't upgraded from XP to Vista or 7 by now. Even the entire IT department at work is now running on 7 and all the servers are running Server 08 R2. Also, the college I graduated from last Spring is imaging all the mandatory leased student laptops with Windows 7 this year by default.
Yes, but life outside the Microsoft campus is a bit different...
There's no place like
er... your statement basically says "he was right but he was wrong."
In this case, it can only be one or the other, and as per your latter statement, he happened to be wrong.
GLaDOS for President 2016! "Well here we are again. It's always such a pleasure." -- GLaDOS, 2011
I'm sure I'll get flamed for quoting him, but I've always loved Joel Spolsky's description of Netscape's "testing methodology":
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