20090701 Microsoft Lies About Rival Browsers Lead to Resentment
From s5h.net
Browser Wars: Get the facts! Sort of...
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)? If IE8 makes your Windows 7 machine safer and allows you to not buy anti-virus software which would you choose?
http://www.siriusit.co.uk/myblog/browser-wars.html Excellent example for the threat to the openness of the internet
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? 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 !!
http://jfopen.blogspot.com/2009/06/excellent-example-for-threat-to.html IE 8 Get the facts campaign gets it wrong
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.
http://saviorodrigues.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/ie-8-get-the-facts-campaign-gets-it-wrong/
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IE8's "Get the Facts Marketing Gets It Wrong
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.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/167137/ie8s_get_the_facts_marketing_gets_it_wrong.html
Microsoft IE8 Hype Is Beyond Belief
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. [...] 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.
Thinking about upgrading to IE8? Think twice
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.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/thinking-about-upgrading-ie8-think-twice-326
Collateral Damage & The Browser Wars
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.
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
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: 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.
http://www.euractiv.com/en/infosociety/eu-oblige-microsoft-offer-competitors-browsers/article-179602
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