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Browser Wars: Get the facts! Sort of...
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| But... consider the situation in Europe where Windows 7 will be supplied sans
| browser. You have just bought an OEM Windows 7 computer. Next step, download
| a browser of your choice from the above list and some anti-virus software. Do
| you choose Firefox (free) + AVG (£30) or do you use a security suite designed
| to work intimately together IE8 (free) + Windows Anti-virus (free)?
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| If IE8 makes your Windows 7 machine safer and allows you to not buy
| anti-virus software which would you choose?
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http://www.siriusit.co.uk/myblog/browser-wars.html
Excellent example for the threat to the openness of the internet
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| Were you ever worried that the internet could be controlled by single vendor
| technology? That there is certain information that you can only see and get
| when using one specific browser? That interoperability is at risk?
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| You are certainly not paranoid if you have such worries. Microsoft Australia
| now gives an example for what is possible and done by offering the chance to
| get $10,000 by finding information on some website - WHICH CAN ONLY BE VIEWED
| USING INTERNET EXPLORER 8 !!
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http://jfopen.blogspot.com/2009/06/excellent-example-for-threat-to.html
IE 8 Get the facts campaign gets it wrong
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| If Microsoft wants me and others like me, to take IE 8 seriously, I expect
| them to treat our intelligence with some respect. Anything less, and after a
| while, we’ll have been taught to discount their bold claims.
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http://saviorodrigues.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/ie-8-get-the-facts-campaign-gets-it-wrong/
Recent:
IE8's "Get the Facts Marketing Gets It Wrong
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| But this comparison table treats me like a moron, especially when you
| consider that I'm using Firefox and have pre-existing views on many items on
| the comparison table. Only IE8 gets a check for security, privacy, and ease
| of use? Really? At a minimum, Microsoft should have used Harvey Balls to show
| that the competitors have capabilities, which may not be as strong as IE8.
| Microsoft could have posted videos that show how easy it is to carry out a
| common task in IE8 and compare it to Firefox with the relevant add-on
| installed.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/167137/ie8s_get_the_facts_marketing_gets_it_wrong.html
Microsoft IE8 Hype Is Beyond Belief
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| Internet Explorer 8 is a very good browser, especially when compared to IE7
| and (ugh) IE6. However, it still lags behind most of the other browsers in
| both performance and standards compliance. That doesn't seem to bother
| Microsoft, which has been pushing IE8 using hype that they rarely use even
| for Windows or Office.
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| [...]
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| There is no way that Microsoft can claim anything close to parity with
| standards compliance of the other major browsers. For example, IE8 retains a
| non-standard event model that does not get anywhere close to the W3C standard
| published in 2000. Just a few examples: Form elements don't bubble events.
| There is a global event object instead of an event argument passed to the
| handler. Rather than document.addEventListener, IE uses the non-standard
| document.attachEvent method.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/06/microsoft_ie8_h.html;jsessionid=QU4MDQ0GLWPRGQSNDLOSKHSCJUNN2JVN
Thinking about upgrading to IE8? Think twice
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| For example: One day last month Cringester D. L. discovered when he logged
| onto the Net, he couldn't get to his e-mail or view Web pages. He then
| enjoyed several quality hours on the phone with Dell tech support, which
| determined the cause: His daughter had clicked a button and updated the
| browser to IE8 without telling him. The support tech logged onto his computer
| remotely and downgraded it to IE7. Problems solved.
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http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/thinking-about-upgrading-ie8-think-twice-326
Collateral Damage & The Browser Wars
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| After I downloaded IE8 two weeks ago, my Sony audio programs got hung up and
| wouldn't load. When I went to the Microsoft and Sony sites and found no help,
| I decided I didn't need nuanced improvements to my web surfing, and did a
| system restore. Oops. Then IEx wouldn't run at all. Somehow, the update had
| destabilized somethingoranother. I was out of luck.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/06/on_the_collater.html
Windows 7 lets you remove Internet Explorer 8
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/windows-7-ie8-remove.html
Remove the Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant (ClickOnce) Firefox Extension
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article08-600
EU to oblige Microsoft to offer competitors’ browsers
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| The European Commission will require Microsoft to give users of its
| ubiquitous Windows operating system the opportunity to choose between
| different Internet browsers to avoid breaching EU competition rules, the
| bloc's antitrust spokesman told EurActiv.
| Background:
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| Although the Commission is still officially waiting for a response from
| Microsoft to the complaints raised last January, the outcome of this new
| battle with the IT giant is already taking form.
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http://www.euractiv.com/en/infosociety/eu-oblige-microsoft-offer-competitors-browsers/article-179602
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