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IE 10 Almost Finished For Windows 7 With Final Preview

Posted by samzenpus on from the check-it-out dept.

Billly Gates writes "IE 10 just hit the final preview yesterday for Windows 7. Windows XP and Windows Vista support has been dropped. Most slashdotters have a complex relationship with Internet Explorer. Many of us hate it but have to use it in the office. Microsoft had tried last year to make IE good again with the release of IE 9 which had some fanfare on slashdot, such as hardware acceleration and better standards compliance. MS even launched a full campaign to get us to switch. IE 10 is supposed to continue the new process and promises to be much faster and support more HTML 5, CSS 3, W3C HTML 5.1 and CSS 3.1 with a score of 320 on HTML5test. As a comparison, last years IE 9 only scored 138. "

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  1. Microsoft Internet Explorer by MrEricSir · · Score: 5, Funny

    "It's the best way to install Firefox!"
      - Steve Ballmer

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    1. Re:Microsoft Internet Explorer by hairyfeet · · Score: 4, Funny

      Funny enough that isn't far from the truth, although to be more accurate today it would probably be Chrome instead of Firefox. Working here at the shop I get to see pretty much all walks of life and within the last 5 years I have seen a pretty fundamental shift, whereas before it was only the geeky types that had an alternate browser now EVERYBODY has one, even the little old folks that don't like change.

      Now I can't tell you why, maybe its the fact like morons they fragmented the hell out of the userbase and people didn't like that they couldn't run the same IE on both their new laptop and their old desktop, maybe its the UI changes that frankly suck, who knows, but I can tell you pretty much ONLY the SMBs use IE anymore around here and even many of them are moving away from IE.

      This is why I don't get why the EU and others are having a fit over IE, its fucking dying already, what is the point of kicking it as it quivers and bleeds? it would be like having a shitfit over the blink tag in Netscape after AOHell bought it and run all the users off, seriously what is the point? IE is dying, the fat lady has not only sang she is down the street having a sammich, nobody uses that crap anymore unless they absolutely have to and even those are looking for an exit strategy. Let the damned thing just die in peace already, let it join WinME, Vista, and Win 8 on the fail pile and move on.

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    2. Re:Microsoft Internet Explorer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      "I would like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Internet Explorer, is in fact, Mosaic/Internet Explorer or as I've recently taken to calling it Mosaic plus Internet Explorer."
      -Richard M. Stallman

  2. Riiiight by H3xx · · Score: 3, Funny

    :slow clap:

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    "Ubuntu" - an African word meaning "Slackware is too hard for me."
  3. See it in action by Billly+Gates · · Score: 5, Funny

    RIght here?

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  4. Re:Windows 8 on Windows 7 by wvmarle · · Score: 5, Funny

    To prepare you for the shock when you are forced to upgrade.

  5. IE10 is fast. I love it. by Jackie_Chan_Fan · · Score: 4, Funny

    What the hell did I just say?

    Yes.. I cant believe it either, but the damn thing is actually really good. Chrome is a mess. Firefox is the middleman, and IE10 is faster, smoother than both of them. IE10 GPU acceleration is incredibly superior in every way.