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19 Jun 2009, 4:26 pm

They are claiming IE8 is more secure, more reliable, and more compatible than Mozilla and Chrome, while insisting that they match their competition in performance, standards-compliance, and customizability.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/get-the-facts/browser-comparison.aspx

It's good for a laugh, if nothing else.

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19 Jun 2009, 4:36 pm

Standards are formed then they ignore them.

How can they have the greatest compatibility then?

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19 Jun 2009, 8:57 pm

well, that's just standard salesspeak...

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20 Jun 2009, 4:40 am

Even this pre-Alpha build of Chrome on my Dad's Linux box, knocks the spots off IE.

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20 Jun 2009, 12:39 pm

yes, we had a good laugh about it at work today. IE8 is the nightmare of all apps programmers in my company.

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21 Jun 2009, 12:57 am

How can they claim "IE8" is the EASIEST to use? All I can see in buttons are back and forward. Refresh is a little harder to see. What about stopping a page loading? If you don't know the keyboard shortcut, you have to go back.

Good for a laugh anyway

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21 Jun 2009, 1:17 am

Keith wrote:

IE is very easy to use. It hardly took me any time at all to figure out how to download Firefox.

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21 Jun 2009, 1:49 am

I wish I had known how crappy it was before "upgrading" from IE7. I don't think I was even aware that I was "upgrading."

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21 Jun 2009, 3:58 am

There's a thing here: what you're used to always looks more familiar than what you're not.

Microsoft's view of the future is a world where everyone uses Microsoft. Some of us aren't comfortable with that sort of outlook. How the next product looks doesn't seem terribly important in the face of that sort of ideological impasse.

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21 Jun 2009, 4:58 am

Orwell wrote:

Keith wrote:

IE is very easy to use. It hardly took me any time at all to figure out how to download Firefox.

*ded*

Thats about all I do with IE... I don't even bother with updates. And silverlight may look cool, but it's not cool enough.

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21 Jun 2009, 5:04 am

Orwell wrote:

Keith wrote:

IE is very easy to use. It hardly took me any time at all to figure out how to download Firefox.

You can't use IE on Linux very well. And if you could, why would you

Chances are, you would have Firefox 3.0 at the least.
Good comment though

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24 Jun 2009, 2:21 pm

Fuzzy wrote:

Standards are formed then they ignore them.

How can they have the greatest compatibility then?

Because the Zune is the best media device on the market!, didn't you know?

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24 Jun 2009, 2:43 pm

EtotheC wrote:

Fuzzy wrote:

Standards are formed then they ignore them.

How can they have the greatest compatibility then?

Because the Zune is the best media device on the market!, didn't you know?

The zunes are actually really nice.

Interfacing with a computer is where they suck.

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24 Jun 2009, 2:46 pm

Fuzzy wrote:

The zunes are actually really nice.

Interfacing with a computer is where they suck.

Worry not! Work is underway to liberate the Zune from its inferior software. Someday soon the Zune may run Rockbox.

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24 Jun 2009, 2:47 pm

Fuzzy wrote:

EtotheC wrote:

Fuzzy wrote:

Standards are formed then they ignore them.

How can they have the greatest compatibility then?

Because the Zune is the best media device on the market!, didn't you know?

The zunes are actually really nice.

Interfacing with a computer is where they suck.

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the greatest compatibility

exactly

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24 Jun 2009, 2:50 pm

EtotheC wrote:

Fuzzy wrote:

the greatest compatibility

exactly

Its funny that they are not more open. The ipod was a huge foot in the door for Apple.

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