Did Microsoft Screw Up Internet Explorer 8?

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I use the latest chrome. I love the extensions they now have on it for one (I'm using flashblock and adblock for starters, along with the RSS feed.) Overall, unless I need to use IE, I avoid IE at all costs.

Before instant messaging, there was chat. I feel nostalgic for the days when one actually had to be a dedicated technology geek to know of and use software like chat. I started surfing the internet in the early 1990s when it was essentially an academic affair. If it had not been for the disruptions in my life during that period of time (I dropped out of medical school and had to return to the Singapore army to finish up a mandatory 2 year service), it would have been likely that I would have gone the full distance and specialized in information technology. Now I am glad that I did not do that. It was unlikely that I would have attained any dot com wealth and far more likely that I would have just joined the legions of analysts, coders and administrators that kept the IT fire burning. These days there are a lot of embittered and angry IT professionals who find that age discrimination in the industry is rampant. Why hire someone in their 40s or 50s who may know a lot about legacy systems when you can hire a twenty something from India who is not only cheaper but also not burdened by the past?

In hindsight, all the innovations that forced people to relearn and retrain actually did very little to improve our lives or help raise productivity. Wrongplanet.net for instance could run just as well as a BBS hosted on an academic server. It would be a world of text that is shorn of fancy graphics and absolutely no video, but the word is truer and in many ways a better representation of the human spirit.

I agree with most of the above posters. I have not used IE8, and only use IE7 on the very rare occaisions that I absolutley have to. I use Firefox, Opera, and sometimes Safari.

To be honest, I can't think of an Internet Explorer they didn't mess up...
IE, the 'red shirts' of the Star Trek Internet world...

So Microsoft did screw up IE8. It was IE8 that was named the vulnerability in the Google hacks and then an urgent update followed. I have a feeling that the assaults began long before Google made public their 'concerns'. How does a company spend so much money developing a product and still get it wrong?

actually, I started out with a 1200-baud internal modem, connecting to BBS's, and the aforementioned Procomm (later Netscape, then IE...only because it was at work, and it was all they had). Firefox been berry berry good to me so far...

And my new job even lets me use it at work... shweet...

The stripped too many buttons off the main window in IE7 and 8. IE6 was so much easier to use as it had a lot buttons for stuff like printing and you did not have to go into menus to do a lot of things.

Even their ads are s**t. They have nothing practical to use as a sale pitch, so they result to histrionics.

Warning. Dont watch if you dont have a strong gag reflex.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB9fhjnJcB0[/youtube]

After using Chrome, Opera and and Firefox, I have never gone back to Internet Explorer!