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| Thread ID: 139143 | 2015-03-17 20:56:00 | RIP Internet Explorer | lordnoddy (3645) | PC World Chat |
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| 1396596 | 2015-03-17 20:56:00 | www.stuff.co.nz What will they call the new browser? It's a pity WebJet is taken XD |
lordnoddy (3645) | ||
| 1396597 | 2015-03-17 21:11:00 | Is it really dead though or just renamed. Some reports just say MS is killing off the name and that the new default browser that'll be released with windows as a result of project spartan will still use a lot of the same engine etc that internet explorer does. Older articles claimed both browsers would be in windows 10 but nothing is certain until it's actually released. Some info here but the site is a little broken in my browser mashable.com |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1396598 | 2015-03-18 00:08:00 | RIP. Rot in Pieces. :D | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1396599 | 2015-03-18 01:38:00 | Spartan is re-done from the ground up. It'll run along-side IE for corporate compatibility. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1396600 | 2015-03-18 01:51:00 | I.E. ranks down there with that other awful M$ invention, "Zune". Zune allegedly provided the interface between phone and PC, and was necessary to transfer media files between the two. Zune came to me via my Nokia Lumia 800 phone, strangely not preloaded with working software. I had to download Zune to the phone, and also my PC. Despite many "fixes" available, recommended by forums and people who accidentally stumbled across "solutions", nothing ever worked for me - and many other disgruntled Windows phone customers. Eventually I did come across a solution that worked - by altering just a few registry values which enabled the phone to act as a USB device. But this was a situation that should never have been allowed to happen - the end user not having to download software for both devices, but unproven software without any support. Hopefully I.E. will be at least be proven when it arrives. And maybe, just maybe, M$ will listen to its end users. WalOne pauses to gaze transfixed in awe at the sight of a squadron of Capt. Cookers flying in formation over Ellerslie ... |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1396601 | 2015-03-18 06:17:00 | "WalOne pauses to gaze transfixed in awe at the sight of a squadron of Capt. Cookers flying in formation over Ellerslie ... " Really funny, thanks. |
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| 1396602 | 2015-03-18 07:32:00 | :D | WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1396603 | 2015-03-18 09:11:00 | Seems a bit like telecom changing their name when they could no longer fool enough of the people for enough of the time. Don't change your attitude, research a new name. Possibly they'll have that shrill banshee saying it is as seen on TV. Possibly pigskin umbrellas are not yet necessary in Ellerslie. Yeah, right. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1396604 | 2015-03-18 20:53:00 | Zune sounds truly terrible, I'm not sure I.E.xx is really in the same class. Despite poor standards support and sometimes slow performance internet explorer has always worked just fine for me. For the most part it does what it is supposed to do, and it has got better in general with newer versions. The only reason I finally started using firefox last year was because of the useful add-ons and because of add ridden websites. I got sick of pop up adds trying to sell me get rich quick or weight loss schemes and youtube videos that dissappear under a sea of adds I have to close one by one with hard to find close buttons. It's the website designers that killed internet explorer for me not microsoft. I'm not totally against add supported websites and accept that companies want a return on them but the implementation is far too intrusive and annoying and if they tried that at my house they'd get the door shut in their face. In windows 10 technical preview I was determined not to add unecessary extras and tried to stick with IE. I installed adblock plus and it's pop-up blocker same as I do for firefox and all seemed good. Unfortunately one website still pops up an add and I eventually got sick of that and went back to FF but other than that one site it actually was pretty good. It's probably a security risk but I like explorers option to run some installers direct from a link rather than downloading first then finding and running it. |
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