If ActiveX controls are still going to be allowed in IE7, I'm really not sure how much more secure this version will be over previous versions. Unfortunately, since there are so many websites out there that utilize ActiveX controls (for good and evil), there is little hope that it will be that much more secure. As far as innovation is concerned, of everything I've heard that's coming about in IE7, it is merely a rehash of Firefox and Opera. Despite the fact that I'm a dedicated Firefox user, I can only hope that they do add features the others don't have. It's those types of things that drive competition.
If the roles were reversed and Macintosh and/or Linux had the marketshare that Windows does now, then I would be willing to bet that we would be sitting here griping about THEM. It's a well known fact that it's the big guy on the block that's always targetted. Give Mac a 90% share of the market and you'll have thousands more Mac Viruses and you would have the Windows community thumbing their collective noses at Steve Jobs for creating such a flawed peace of software.
Seriously, this isn't the biggest news to have ever come out. I've got Cox HSI at home for 40 bucks a month bundled with my digital cable. I get 4/512 and (after testing with speakeasy and cnet) it's regularly higher then that. I didn't even know that they had doubled my bandwidth until I went in to upgrade to a DVR box and I asked the rep. what my bandwidth was.
Plus, out of the horror stories that I've heard of people having poor service from the DSL providers (one friend of mine was left waiting for over a month for his DSL, and still never got it; he just said screw it and went to cable). I get great service from Cox, and their prices are better then most other cable providers.
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If ActiveX controls are still going to be allowed in IE7, I'm really not sure how much more secure this version will be over previous versions. Unfortunately, since there are so many websites out there that utilize ActiveX controls (for good and evil), there is little hope that it will be that much more secure. As far as innovation is concerned, of everything I've heard that's coming about in IE7, it is merely a rehash of Firefox and Opera. Despite the fact that I'm a dedicated Firefox user, I can only hope that they do add features the others don't have. It's those types of things that drive competition.
To tag along this topic, the boys at the Inq reported much the same (I was just beaten to the punch). Linky
If the roles were reversed and Macintosh and/or Linux had the marketshare that Windows does now, then I would be willing to bet that we would be sitting here griping about THEM. It's a well known fact that it's the big guy on the block that's always targetted. Give Mac a 90% share of the market and you'll have thousands more Mac Viruses and you would have the Windows community thumbing their collective noses at Steve Jobs for creating such a flawed peace of software.
Seriously, this isn't the biggest news to have ever come out. I've got Cox HSI at home for 40 bucks a month bundled with my digital cable. I get 4/512 and (after testing with speakeasy and cnet) it's regularly higher then that. I didn't even know that they had doubled my bandwidth until I went in to upgrade to a DVR box and I asked the rep. what my bandwidth was.
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Plus, out of the horror stories that I've heard of people having poor service from the DSL providers (one friend of mine was left waiting for over a month for his DSL, and still never got it; he just said screw it and went to cable). I get great service from Cox, and their prices are better then most other cable providers.