Microsoft has announced the mass availability of their popular browser Internet Explorer 8 today, hoping the new safer, faster browser will help the company win back some market share it has been slowly losing.
?Customers have made clear what they want in a Web browser ? safety, speed and greater ease of use,? added Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft. ?With Internet Explorer 8, we are delivering ... [ read the full article ]
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Just some more crap from M$. I just installed today on a co-worker's machine and after less than 10 mins of using it... I was asked to remove it. Funny...it's less compatible with the Internet than the last version.
Varnull: 100% agree. IE6 wasn't compliant with PNG transparency. A lot of CSS stuff is broken too. I suffer even worse on my old Mac OSX 10.2, where I have IE4 for Mac long before Safari came out (and is incompatible.)
IE7Pro is a group of functionality add-ons for IE7 that makes it "close" to FF, such as session management and bookmark syncing. However, if you polish a turd, it's still... a turd!
Quote:Microsoft says IE8 "blocks two to four times more malware attacks than other browsers," including Firefox and Safari.
So how can IE8 block more malware? Is there a subscription based add-on for IE, like AdBlockPlus in FF? MS can't even get Windows Defender to block or REMOVE malware, so my faith in IE8 is little to none.
All of that "Wannabe IT Manager" banter from the above post got me thinking. You are hosed using IE as long as it's still tied to that little pain in the neck known as ActiveX. IE also uses "install on demand" which of course is now that "yellow bar" the comes up with warnings, which is more annoying than it is useful.
Also guess what? Most apps that are designed to work with IE, ESPECIALLY the corporate environment you are talking about, fail to work properly when a new IE is released. It took our company almost an entire year to get patches that allowed us to upgrade to IE7 from IE6. Invalid security tickets, invalid pages, and the list goes on and on. We had to tweak the pop-up blocker for one app, and fix compatibility with Java. Oh, and what if the site is outside of the set security level or zone? What if that said zone is set by group policy? Do you want to open up the flood gates to get one app, that was written for IE, to work? Varnull hit the nail on the head: non-compliant!
The only way IE is "safe" in a corporate environment is if you have a state of the art firewall in place, and end users have restricted web access. The minute you take a PC, such as a laptop offsite, it is usually infected with spyware and trojans, like Antivirus 2009. We'll see how IE8 fares...
For the other comment above about Windows 7 being the next "ME" you are so wrong. Vista is clearly the bomb that ME was. 7 brings some new features to the table that are useful instead of counter productive as they were with Vista.
Not to mention that 7 doesn't need a hotrod of a system to run either. Check out the one forum here on AD and see the systems that some of us like myself and Omegaman have gotten 7 to run on (and not just barely run) and maybe that will change your mind.
I'm sure the sweaty Ballmer wrote that IE8 blurb with a crayon in his mouth from his padded cell. Only a lunatic would recommend Internet Explorer these days.
