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Internet Explorer Turns 15

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the and-the-internet-has-never-been-the-same dept.

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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  1. Re:Nice and legal in ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Careful, it can spread viruses like crazy.

  2. Re:The Future by aradnik · · Score: 4, Funny

    do you remember what it was like being 15? i bet ie's plotting to get opera in bed or something :)

  3. Re:IE turns 15... by bondsbw · · Score: 5, Funny
    History of IE:
    • Cool... we can go to web pages!
    • Eh, I like Netscape better.
    • But wait... we can theme IE!
    • Microsoft sucks! Down with IE!
    • Oooh... so yeah, I hate to say this since I hate Microsoft, but Netscape really sucks... they haven't upgraded it in like 5 years. And it's owned by AOL, the other enemy. Guess I have to go with IE...
    • IE hasn't been upgraded in like 5 years... we need something new.
    • *From heaven* "BEHOLD, FIREFOX!"
    • Microsoft: Oh crap, you mean we have to put out a new version of IE? Do we still have developers around?
    • Apple: Let's take a Safari...
    • Google: Hey, me too!
    • Opera: Ok guys, we'll make it free... we get it.
    • Opera: HELLO!!?!? Anybody there?
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  4. Re:Mid 90's by spiffmastercow · · Score: 3, Funny

    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?

  5. Re:IE turns 15... by darkpixel2k · · Score: 3, Funny

    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...

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