by JeffT 10 Replies latest jw friends
I upgraded a couple of days ago from IE7 to IE8 after a prompt showed up on my desktop. After hours of locked pages, slow downloads and unsuccessful attempts to tweak the settings on my computer; I followed a suggestion on computer related board. I've uninstalled IE8 and reverted to IE7. Seems to be working fine.
I wonder if Microsoft is going to keep upgrading its products until all of them quit working entirely. Maybe they should move to SC along with Boeing.
Fills me with confidence to upgrade from vista to windows7.
It's as if Microsoft has simply given up on having a decent browser.
I switched to Firefox and I haven't looked back.
Less than 10% of my tasks require IE.
JeffT, it is difficult to comprehend how a company with so many resources is unable to properly test its products prior to release.
Cantleave, in a break from tradition Windows7 is fantastic and a great step up from Vista.
Thanks for trying it out for us.
I didn't accept it.
Cheers
Chris
It's Microsoft, dude, what would one expect?
Windows 7 is better than Vista. I'm not sure that's a ringing endorsement, though.
VE - of the Converted to Apple Except in the Corporate World Where I Can't Escape Windows Class
Hopefully IE will eventually go the way of Windows Mail, Movie Maker, and Photo Gallery which are offered as downloads now but not bundled with the OS.
W
Mozilla us much better. (Thanks for the tip, Padre).
Bill Gates can kiss my entire ass.
I have had more problems with Firefox taking forever to load into my computer (more than three minutes to open the basic page), updating (another ten minutes wasted every few days), and having the whole thing locking up. IE8 is not all it promised, either--it is slow, and when it locks up, you try to restore the session (which it prompts you to) only to have it lock up again and never load back in (to me, it is a waste of lines of code when you have a feature that never works).
Maybe it is time for IE9, IE10, IE11, and IE12 to all be released at once. And I ought to reverse engineer them so I can write IE Infinity and never have to "update" it again. Nor have lines of code that take forever to activate or that do not work. As for Firefox, they ought to call it "Firesnail".
