New Microsoft Internet Explorer(OT)

[Brad Lustig]

Download at your own risk. Completely different look and feel so if you like the old one, you may want to keep it for a while. I've played around with the new one for a little bit today and it looks like it has a few more features but they went a little too far with the changes. I'll let you know what I think after I can actually use it a little longer

[John Mulders]

Standard practice if you don't want to get yourself in trouble with software.

Don't use the beta (unless you are a beta tester and have ways to restore your system.

Even the first public release is full of bugs so wait for a bit, then decide.

John

[Frank Blackstone]

I was instructed by the geeks that first hocked me up with a computer not to ever install the newis from microsoft. They said Gates sends out product with bugs and gets the public to iron them out. Some maybe as testers that have by informed consent agreed to this arrangement. I only know that when I called for assistance they wanted too much money to exlain why there program was not working. Since then I have waited, patience somes times comes with age, not having to have to have the latest and greatest, for bolder computer types to work out the bugs.

[Brad Lustig]

After using it a little more it really seems like it is a nice product. The layout is just soooo different from before that it feels like a completely new product so it has to be completely relearned.

[Bob_Koch]

Personally I always use Firefox. Works very well.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

[carol craig]

Firefox is a much more reliable browser and fun to work with to. If you use your e-mail client a lot I suggest you download thunderbird, it works great also.

As a matter of fact they are a lot of free downloads out there to replace microsoft products. Check out filehippo.com for free downloads.

[Brad Lustig]

I've finally switched over to Firefox. The new explorer is definitely trying to mimic FF, but it falls short. Even after about a week of use, nothing is where I expect it to be. FF is much more intuitive with its layout. Maybe MS will get it right when Vista rolls out.

[carol craig]

Don't count on MS....it is my thought, every time MS comes up with something new there is a lot of problems that come with it.

I have removed as many of MS products from my computer as possible and it runs much faster and have recovered much disk space.

Try Thunderbierd if you haven't already. Another good product is OpenOffice to replace MSOffice.

Many free downloads at

http://www.filehippo.com

[Brad Lustig]

I've been somewhat happy with MS products up until now. No problems with Office, Outlook works fine with me and my Palm Treo, IE was good (used to love Netscape but it got too buggy years ago). I also have XP MCE (Media Center Edition) hooked up to my TV downstairs. Works great. Someday, I'll venture out and try some of the other programs for media centers, some free and supposedly really slick. MS is sort of one of those necessary evils for the time being at least.

[Tim Frank]

>>This is only an urban legend and never happened...funny though.

At a computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: "If GM had kept up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."

In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release (by Mr. Welch himself) stating:

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If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:

1. For no reason at all, your car would crash twice a day.

2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you would have to buy a new car.

3. Occasionally, executing a manoeuver such as a left-turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, and you would have to reinstall the engine.

4. When your car died on the freeway for no reason, you would just accept this, restart and drive on.

5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought 'Car95' or 'CarNT', and then added more seats.

6. Apple would make a car powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would run on only five per cent of the roads.

7. Oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single 'general car default' warning light.

8. New seats would force every-one to have the same size butt.

9. The airbag would say 'Are you sure?' before going off.

10. Occasionally, for no reason, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key, and grabbed the radio antenna.

11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of road maps from Rand-McNally (a subsidiary of GM), even though they neither need them nor want them. Trying to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50 per cent or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department.

12. Every time GM introduced a new model, car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

13. You would press the 'start' button to shut off the engine.

[carol craig]

Very Funny!!! Really made me laugh

Thanks!