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News Microsoft makes IE7 available to all

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by Tim S, 8 Oct 2007.

  1. Tim S

    Tim S OG

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  2. yakyb

    yakyb i hate the person above me

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    opera Mouse Gestures are simply the best feature of all browsers
     
  3. Delphium

    Delphium Eyefinity enabled

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    Fox of the fire, Cheesecake!!!
    IE7 can go get purged!
     
  4. <A88>

    <A88> Trust the Computer

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    IE7+IE7Pro gets the job done for me. Used to be an Opera user but this works fine to be honest...IE7Pro includes most of the things I liked about Opera (including mouse gestures).

    <A88>
     
  5. jeff_vs

    jeff_vs What's a Dremel?

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    IE7 is STILL not fully W3C compliant. I have developed a few pages recently, and IE7 SUCKS when it comes to CSS.

    Firefox all the way.
     
  6. yuusou

    yuusou Multimodder

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    Firefox + bunch of plugins beats everything out there.
     
  7. severedhead

    severedhead What's a Dremel?

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    This confuses me somewhat, why do this? Surely all this shows is "don't bother buying Windows as one day we will give updates to you anyway".
     
  8. E.E.L. Ambiense

    E.E.L. Ambiense Acrylic Heretic

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    QFT.
     
  9. Nestea_Zen

    Nestea_Zen What's a Dremel?

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    Still if most people use iexplore then you'll have to make the site IE7 compliant, somehow.
    The 'Security Zone Model' is still a joke and why do you need ActiveX anyway. Most people click and have clicked on any box popped out stating 'you need this .... to proceed'. Mostly found on warez and p0rn sites but who cares, I want the content. The zones have been restricted by microsoft, this just helps a little bit.

    Firefox 2... memory eater, but... who cares :). iexplore starts faster and I don't know how well it handles 36 tabs though needless to say: I surf with FF. (No experience with Opera, Safari.)
     
  10. Sam0r

    Sam0r It's been a while

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    I don't understand this..

    I've been using IE7 on XP for months.
     
  11. Jamie

    Jamie ex-Bit-Tech code junkie

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    I'm waiting for the OSX version of IE7 still
     
  12. Sam0r

    Sam0r It's been a while

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    You'll be waiting for a very very very long time!
     
  13. Delphium

    Delphium Eyefinity enabled

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    :jawdrop: Why take a nice OS then taint it with IE7?!! You sadistic ho! :D
     
  14. Nestea_Zen

    Nestea_Zen What's a Dremel?

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    lol this is for now the statement of the month but we're still at october 8, so way to go.


    Sam0r
    >>I don't understand this..
    >>I've been using IE7 on XP for months.
    What is that supposed to mean? Is this a comment to my post?
     
  15. Sam0r

    Sam0r It's been a while

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    No, its a comment directed at the article. IE7 came through windows update (And was available to download from MS's site) almost a year ago. I can't see how this is news, unless I'm missing something huge?

    Edit: Ahh, they took out WGA validation, still not really anything to shout about seeing as everyone should have a legit version of windows anyway..
     
  16. completemadness

    completemadness What's a Dremel?

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    and it was hardly rocket science if WGA put up a fuss

    I wonder if they could use this to see people who dont have legit copys, if everyone suddenly downloads IE7 there is going to be a big spike :p
     
  17. Jamie

    Jamie ex-Bit-Tech code junkie

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    Simple answer, testing browser compatibility without the need for bootcamp or parallels.
     
  18. Delphium

    Delphium Eyefinity enabled

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    Valid, fair enough.
     
  19. Nestea_Zen

    Nestea_Zen What's a Dremel?

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    Jamie
    Mmmm of course yes. of course. :D
    I doubt it will come out, like Sam0r already wrote.
    Since IE5 has been withdrawn there was no news about IE for Mac.

    I wonder how many people are using IE6 on a legit windows xp copy.
     
  20. [USRF]Obiwan

    [USRF]Obiwan What's a Dremel?

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    Releaseds for ALL but ONLY for w2k3, xp and vista.

    What a joke..
     
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