__/ [ B Gruff ] on Thursday 27 July 2006 00:35 \__
> On Thursday 27 July 2006 00:00 The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
>
>>>> It is unfortunate and sad that about half of all businesses in the
>>>> States still run versions of Windows that are older than XP. This means
>>>> that they will continue to browse with "Swiss cheese" or upgrade to
>>>> Opera/Firefox/Mozilla (IE7 requires XP or older). And MSIE-only sites
>>>> are merely a legacy.
>>>
>>> You mean "XP or NEWER"?
Yes. That was a slip. *smile*
>>> - and don't tell me "XP or better", because it ain't true - AFIAK, it
>>> doesn't run under WINE!
Well, IE7 has not been formally released yet. In due time, Wine will evolve
to run the latest of everything.EXE. With the increased number of Linux
users, the demand (and thus financial incentive) will be there. Google, for
instance, support Wine and there are also commercial spin-offs like
CrossOver Office.
>> It will be interesting to see which will happen first:
>>
>> - the final Vista release.
>> - the ability for WinE to run IE7, by implementing the missing
>> routines/capabilities/etc. .
>
> You might well be right:-)
> I actually started to use IE6 under WINE recently, and I'm very impressed -
> by the ability of WINE that is, not IE6.
> (Reason - there's one site where I can't get round the I.E. use. If I post
> links there, or any HTML, it has to be with I.E.
> The site is groups.msn.com, and it just doesn't seem to play with anything
> else!)
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