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| Thread ID: 47953 | 2004-08-10 01:14:00 | Are Microsoft immitating Firefox? | Chilling_Silence (9) | Press F1 |
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| 260081 | 2004-08-10 01:14:00 | Just seen Browser Express (msdn.microsoft.com) on msdn - It looks familiar...... ...Oddly enough the features they tout are the same features Ive been using with Firefox since is was 0.4 (Phoenix). Tabbed browsing? Old news.... Re-designing your Interface? Cant everybody? Apparently the application Visual Studio Express will be free though :-) Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 260082 | 2004-08-10 01:22:00 | Would it not be smart if they did? Haven't looked too closely at it, but does it still use IE as its basis? Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 260083 | 2004-08-10 01:48:00 | Interesting Chill. I was a Mac user from 1986 till about 96. I am quite sure I remember IE for the Mac had tabbed browsing with the tabs down the left hand margin. It always seemed to me that in those years Microsoft made better products for the Mac than it did for its own operating system. Until they came out with one appalling iteration of Word - was it Word 6? John |
John H (8) | ||
| 260084 | 2004-08-10 06:02:00 | I've downloaded it, but don't know how to use the freaking thing! | Megaman (344) | ||
| 260085 | 2004-08-10 07:07:00 | Would'nt be surpised if MS just purchased one of the many alt replacement front ends for IE and are marketing it a product they've created. Would'nt be the first time and it will not be the last. | mark.p (383) | ||
| 260086 | 2004-08-10 08:00:00 | Might be a cool thing to use for customising the web browser for say an internet Cafe, but other than that they are just copying everyone else's ideas. Par for the course with Microsoft. Shouldn't the makers of browsers if they come up with a revolutionary idea, patent it? |
kiki (762) | ||
| 260087 | 2004-08-10 08:08:00 | We use MozillaFirefox where I work, and MozillaFirefox alone. The icon is Internet Explorer's, and the desktop Icon has been renamed to suit and our customers are non-the-wiser :-) Some clever cookies notice and ask us where they can get a copy for home because they notice there are no popups, but mostly people dont notice.... ...so why use IE? Google for "Internet Explorer Deemed" and hit "Im Feeling Lucky" ;-) The eWeek article at the bottom of that page is worth a read too :-) Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 260088 | 2004-08-10 08:18:00 | Software should not be patented. Do you patent books, technical manuals, mathematial functions or calculations, music, sculpture and other artwork. ;) Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 260089 | 2004-08-10 17:44:00 | >>Do you patent books, technical manuals, mathematial functions or >calculations, music, sculpture and other artwork . What is the difference between patent and copyright? There is copyright on most of the above . |
Old Tom (5871) | ||
| 260090 | 2004-08-10 22:13:00 | Being able to customise your web browser has been a feature of Opera for yonks. ;-) | Susan B (19) | ||
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