Thunderbird handles the mail (no ads) and it's used for e-mail that doesn't affect anything (storage space and spam, unfortunately). For all the important mail or ones that affect ads, I use the server I have access to.
Advertising. They can look at the search logs and say "Hey, people from $area are searching for $product; let's put loads of advertising in $area so we can get more money". I would rather not help people who do things like that.
Beating Microsoft shouldn't just be at having a larger market share - that is just propaganda and a "my browser is better than your browser" argument.
IE was only ahead because of the way it locked people into writing for the funny way it displays pages. When IE had 95% market share, web developers wrote for IE only. Now Firefox has 25% market share on some sites, web developers are writing for both browsers, at least. And when sites work the same in any browser, users can change browsers at will, without anything bad happening. Suddenly, Microsoft have lost the main thing that makes people keep IE.
And when is IE7 coming out? By the looks of it, sometime next year, which gives Firefox plenty of time to continue what it's doing. Firefox's being "poised to beat" Microsoft looks more likely than you'd think from looking at the market share stats.
IIRC, Opera's tabs were just an MDI interface in a single window, while Mozilla's tabs were a bar on each window, allowing for new windows and everything. Likewise, Opera's popup blocker stopped all new windows from opening; when Mozilla 'stole' the feature they improved it so only popups launched when the page opens are blocked.
Microsoft, on the other hand, just takes other applications' features and does nothing to improve them. You would think, with their horde of programmers, that they would add something new and innovative to IE. They are even using Opera's old single-window popup blocking method, which is annoying enough to make everyone I know turn it off.
I am not annoyed that Microsoft is catching up with three years ago now, I am annoyed that it's caught up with three years ago and isn't even going to tiptoe any further.
One of the things e-mail clients could use from Gmail is how it handles said PayPal phishes. It lets through the message, but puts up a big red box saying:
Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal information.
Which doesn't get in the way, and is startling enough to not be ignored. It makes most users think "Is this a real e-mail?", and if it's on some company network, they could ask for help and be told not to reply, then slowly learn not to by themselves.
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Thunderbird handles the mail (no ads) and it's used for e-mail that doesn't affect anything (storage space and spam, unfortunately). For all the important mail or ones that affect ads, I use the server I have access to.
Advertising. They can look at the search logs and say "Hey, people from $area are searching for $product; let's put loads of advertising in $area so we can get more money". I would rather not help people who do things like that.
Do we know what distro the Linux servers run? Just interested...
They sell stuff. Specifically, RHEL, and support for it.
This is political correctness gone mad!
Or political correctness gone mentally challenged?
This is proof... Google is slowly turning eval!
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Don't do that.
Firefox will always be ahead of IE. The version of Firefox I am using says it is version 20050527!
Beating Microsoft shouldn't just be at having a larger market share - that is just propaganda and a "my browser is better than your browser" argument.
IE was only ahead because of the way it locked people into writing for the funny way it displays pages. When IE had 95% market share, web developers wrote for IE only. Now Firefox has 25% market share on some sites, web developers are writing for both browsers, at least. And when sites work the same in any browser, users can change browsers at will, without anything bad happening. Suddenly, Microsoft have lost the main thing that makes people keep IE.
And when is IE7 coming out? By the looks of it, sometime next year, which gives Firefox plenty of time to continue what it's doing. Firefox's being "poised to beat" Microsoft looks more likely than you'd think from looking at the market share stats.
Run= doesn't work either, and I am pretty sure it is supposed to be Exec=. Ah well.
Recent security issues in open source products have convinced me that obscurity provided by closed source is far superior security-wise.
:)
You're not a VBS virus writer, by any chance?
Well, it does give us an idea of how both clients work.
"In Outlook, you can do this, and it works just like this in Evolution. See, look at the screenshots, it's easy."
All of the other factors (security, spam filtering, etc) are in the comments at the end of the page.
These guys also did Windows and Linux comparisons which make for good viewing.
IIRC, Opera's tabs were just an MDI interface in a single window, while Mozilla's tabs were a bar on each window, allowing for new windows and everything.
Likewise, Opera's popup blocker stopped all new windows from opening; when Mozilla 'stole' the feature they improved it so only popups launched when the page opens are blocked.
Microsoft, on the other hand, just takes other applications' features and does nothing to improve them. You would think, with their horde of programmers, that they would add something new and innovative to IE. They are even using Opera's old single-window popup blocking method, which is annoying enough to make everyone I know turn it off.
I am not annoyed that Microsoft is catching up with three years ago now, I am annoyed that it's caught up with three years ago and isn't even going to tiptoe any further.
Three years ago is 'good enough', I suppose?
I did! (hangs head in shame)
I don't think anyone's ever built something to specifically target Amaya, links, or w3b either.
4. For clarity, just translate it into Spanish and ROT13 it.
Jvaqbjf rf ry zrwbe! Éy genonwbf whfgbf!
We don't see any saucy pictures. Just so you know.
I dropped out of it as a hobby - now I bash Windows as a profession.
Type JOKE in the Mac version of Sim City 2000, you get that message. It's not particularly funny, just weird; maybe the joke is on us.
Firefox had quite that advert a while back.
What's the big deal here? Right tool for the job.
I doubt Microsoft wants to show people that OpenOffice is 'the right tool for the job' that much.
Which doesn't get in the way, and is startling enough to not be ignored. It makes most users think "Is this a real e-mail?", and if it's on some company network, they could ask for help and be told not to reply, then slowly learn not to by themselves.
I guess the force just isn't that strong with them. :)
Of course it isn't. That's why you have to crack 'em.