If I tell Microsoft that this feature shouldn't be doing this and instead should be working this way do you honestly think that Microsoft is going to listen and then make the change? No they won't. They will only make the change if enough users complain about and the change and it will be made in 6-12 months if you are lucky. Our company has complained to Microsoft about windows update going to 100% cpu for 5-10 minutes and crashing on laptops because they can't handle it (we are using WSUS). This has been reported as an issue by many users 6months+ ago yet Microsoft still haven't released a fix. I have heard that it will be fixed in windows update 3, but still the fact is Microsoft don't care about the end users, only it's profits.
Requires lots of testing after a change is made. Not that it's a bad thing to support multiple browsers it's just there are reasons behind why sites don't support multiple browsers. It's only until recently that usage has grown on other browsers besides IE so there's lots of software around that was written only for IE. To change it to work on other browsers is a big job as everything needs to be tested on multiple browsers and alternative ways of doing things needs to be established and implemented. For example lots of software on the web uses active-x controls. At my work some of our software only works on IE as it's a huge change to get it to work on other browsers and the company isn't willing to pay for it.
Yeah but Windows Desktop Search is less than a quarter as good as Spotlight is. The fact is OSX is still more secure as there are less users and is therefore much less of a target.
It's only sensitive to the filename because the javascript actually creates the menus id based on the filename. If you change it to always use the same id for the menu then it should work no matter what regardless of the filename. From a quick look at it I couldn't work out why the work profile was causing an issue when it tried to give the menu an id with profile in it.
Usability studies have been done on this and it's more natural for users to look at the tab to close rather than the right of the browser. You can change this using about:config and modifying browser.tabs.closeButtons. The point of the V on the right hand side is if you open lots of tabs that then have scrolling on the tab bar you can click the V to view all the tabs and switch to one.
It's difficult to drop support for IE6 as many users especially in corporate environments will continue to use it. Many administrators won't be updating IE6 to IE7 as it is a new product (with a lot of bugs and issues) and they won't have enough faith in the product and I don't blame them. Unfortunately at work we are still supporting IE5.5 as there are still a few users of that ancient version yet IE6 has been out for 5 years.
All products have security flaws. The fact is they get fixed a lot quicker when they are discovered than IE therefore leaving the user less vulnerable to attack.
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Interesting choice of the microsoft logo for the icon for the website
Hire your own recruiters to do it back to them. Soon they want to stop annoying you.
If I tell Microsoft that this feature shouldn't be doing this and instead should be working this way do you honestly think that Microsoft is going to listen and then make the change? No they won't. They will only make the change if enough users complain about and the change and it will be made in 6-12 months if you are lucky. Our company has complained to Microsoft about windows update going to 100% cpu for 5-10 minutes and crashing on laptops because they can't handle it (we are using WSUS). This has been reported as an issue by many users 6months+ ago yet Microsoft still haven't released a fix. I have heard that it will be fixed in windows update 3, but still the fact is Microsoft don't care about the end users, only it's profits.
Requires lots of testing after a change is made. Not that it's a bad thing to support multiple browsers it's just there are reasons behind why sites don't support multiple browsers. It's only until recently that usage has grown on other browsers besides IE so there's lots of software around that was written only for IE. To change it to work on other browsers is a big job as everything needs to be tested on multiple browsers and alternative ways of doing things needs to be established and implemented. For example lots of software on the web uses active-x controls. At my work some of our software only works on IE as it's a huge change to get it to work on other browsers and the company isn't willing to pay for it.
Yeah but Windows Desktop Search is less than a quarter as good as Spotlight is. The fact is OSX is still more secure as there are less users and is therefore much less of a target.
USA and many other countries including Australia has a long way to go to have clean energy. New Zealand gets 75% of it's energy from geothermal.
It's only sensitive to the filename because the javascript actually creates the menus id based on the filename. If you change it to always use the same id for the menu then it should work no matter what regardless of the filename. From a quick look at it I couldn't work out why the work profile was causing an issue when it tried to give the menu an id with profile in it.
Don't you mean to defeat client-side checking?
Usability studies have been done on this and it's more natural for users to look at the tab to close rather than the right of the browser. You can change this using about:config and modifying browser.tabs.closeButtons. The point of the V on the right hand side is if you open lots of tabs that then have scrolling on the tab bar you can click the V to view all the tabs and switch to one.
This reminds me of a uni assignment that i did where we matched images based on colour.
It's difficult to drop support for IE6 as many users especially in corporate environments will continue to use it. Many administrators won't be updating IE6 to IE7 as it is a new product (with a lot of bugs and issues) and they won't have enough faith in the product and I don't blame them. Unfortunately at work we are still supporting IE5.5 as there are still a few users of that ancient version yet IE6 has been out for 5 years.
For all those Australians out there: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3099/
All products have security flaws. The fact is they get fixed a lot quicker when they are discovered than IE therefore leaving the user less vulnerable to attack.
This has been tried at least: http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/25/14 30222