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[News] [Rival] IE8 is Lying to the Public and Breaking People's PCs

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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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| 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

Microsoft lied to the court about it being impossible to remove.

Remove the Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant (ClickOnce) Firefox Extension  

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article08-600


Recent:

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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