News Microsoft launches Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7

[Shirty]

I don't mind which browser I use, just as long as I can find my way around. On Chrome across the board at the minute, it's quick and painless.

[Nexxo]

Originally Posted by Snips

LMAO, love the anti-Microsoft brigade trying their hardest to ridicule a positive comment about Microsoft.

Well, that's not exactly true, is it? It is more a positive comment about Microsoft interlaced with some very negative comments about alternative browsers:

Originally Posted by Snips

What a great thing for Microsoft to do. Offering the superior IE10 to Win7 consumers. You don't need any lame third party browser adware like chrome, firefox etc. etc. For those who, how did they put it "never looked back" or "never use it" you can't throw an opinion on how good the alternative is unless you've used the new version. Even IE9 was better than the supposed great alternatives.

or you can just keep your head in the sand, we won't miss you

So you cannot blame the people you refer to for responding a bit, well, defensively.

Originally Posted by Snips

IE is the only browser you need but there's some protest against it, why? Because it's Microsoft? Because your machine can't load it?

I've personally used all variants of the so called better alternative and I can hand on heart say they just don't cut it. The worse thing about the so called better alternative is the "Look at me!" "install me!" "upgrade me!" "Try this free!" nonsense. They are like a small child crying out for attention in a room full of children. As a result, at best it's adware at worst it's malware.

Personally I use Firefox because it has a whole useful and flexible range of add-ons (in-webpage unit conversion, download manager, open-text-as-link script etc) and it syncs bookmarks. I occasionally use Chrome if I need something quick and lean; it also works very smoothly with Google web-based services, and syncs bookmarks. Both update in the background.

Previous versions of IE were a bit clumsy (accelerators were a disaster). IE10 is better than previous versions but it needs a bit more work.

[PingCrosby]

Erm, so should I update my WorldWideWeb version 1 then?