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Ten words or less: “Internet Explorer 7 is…”

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In ten words or less, complete the following sentence: “Internet Explorer 7 is…”

I’ll start with “…the best imitation of Firefox I’ve seen in a while.”

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more exploits in progress..

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and Jay, you need to take a look at Seamonkey.
Mozilla’s answer to Netscape Communicator. :p

Mine is

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Still a microsoft product and a pile of trash.

]:)

the evil Firefox from a parallel dimension

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Makes you think, doesn’t it?

Internet Exploitable….

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Come on, it’s Microsoft Internet Explorer. Do you think IE will ever be secure? MS needs to start from scratch both on the OS level as well as IE.

Internet Exploitable

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No, it’s the “Infernal Exploder”.

You took mine, Jay!

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I tried IE 7 for a couple of hours this week and realized they had just ripped off the features I like about FF — tabbed browsing and RSS reader.

What I love is when IE users claim IE 7 is so innovative. It’s really just an endorsement of FF.

But Smorty

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Did you try to remove it?

Col ]:)
http://tinyurl.com/fz854

Don’t try this on any Mission Critical Box as you’ll trash IE at the very least and more times than not the OS as well.

You’ve got to try Opera 9 – Beta1.

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I’ve never seen a beta quite like this fast, secure, glitch free and with Bit Torrent built right in. You no longer need a client like Azureus and to top it off it seems to run faster. I’ve been using Opera 8.54 off and on but this just blows me away. I’ve never seen such a clean beta version of anything like this is. I am still evaluating it but so far, I have not seen one hiccup and that has been since the 23rd. I open Opera intending to try it for only an hour but hen end up using it all day for everything. Some beta; some browser. Try it, you’ll like it.

[b]Dawg[/b] ]:)

Car Analogy

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the Mustang II compared to a real Mustang (Firefox).

with a Yugo drive train…………

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.

That’s an exaggeration.

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It has a Ford drive train. That’s quite bad enough.

more bugs

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IE 7 is more buggy than a Firefox Alpha release.

I’ve had so many strange things happen running the IE 7 Beta’s that it is obvious that Microsoft does not have a clue on how to test software.

IE 7 has locked up in ways that Firefox never has.

Chas

Hey Chas

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Think on this.

If Vista had of been released on time it would now be called the Production Version not the Beta Version that it is at the moment.

Col ]:)

more bugs

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than Joe’s apartment 🙂

Pile of downloads

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just a bunch more downloads to make each month.

Still integrated into the OS

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No more needs to be said.

IE7 is still playing………..

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……….catch-up to firefox

Microsoft is still playing up

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Just when did Microsoft actually design something of their own ? Except for the FAT table which we have to credit Bill Gates for, everything else is bought, copied or outright stolen.

mine is..

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pretty good actually

a piece of c**p

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It crashed & I had to do a complete reinstall.

NO THANKS

a security vulnerability just waiting to happen …

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… but will probably still be accepted as the industy standard for browsing the internet.

IE7 is

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looking pretty good.

Does the word “New” make us too curious to flee?

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“a Fly Trap to catch the too curious to flee”

as long as it’s not paired with ‘improved’

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…and I promise to keep using IE whenever I visit the Microsoft Update website! no, really…

No it will not have the words Improved

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Just the normal MS [b]Best Ever[/b] which is scary enough for anyone that’s had dealings with MS software for more than 1 version.

Col

IE7 is

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Unstable,Horible and just Plain & simple [b]BLOODY AWFUL![/b]

Col ]:)
http://tinyurl.com/fz854

IE6 with a new face and and impossible to delete history

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Same old settings since IE4 nothing changed it’s not secure, I “ipgraded” a test box that I tweaked the security settings for, and lo and behold the “upgrade” to 7 put those settings back down to the same old defaults. I even posted a complaint to MS and their response was:
“…we’ll look into it.”.
That was a month ago…. I’m STILL WAITING, dear MS!

At least you got a reply

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That’s more than most of us get when we document errors in MS sw. I once got a bill…. and a ‘fix’ that consisted of removing the error box, the error was still there. It was Excel not doing the maths corectly.

How about, “Still flawed and insecure and slower than the second coming.”

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And I mean it, quite seriously.

[b]Dawg[/b] ]:)

Smell

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Same shit, different smell.

“Internet Explorer 7 is…

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two million lines of schoolboy, error prone, plagiarism”

a mockery of the bromide “third time is the charm”!

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😀

I still use Windows + IE at home, but less all the time, as I learn more about the dangers of IE’s unique “features” such as ActiveX. All the content I really want can be conveyed with html 1.0. Everything since is smokescreen, introduced deliberately to distract from lack of content.

way too little, way too late.

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It’s not out of beta yet, and it’s still waaayyy behind FireFox.

Tardy

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…two years too late to make a meaningful difference

Something I will be happy

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not to use when it comes in a Linux version.

$0.02

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still an average, buggy, non-stimulating, non-innovating, imitation of better programs.

Internet Explorer 7 is…

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the holes at the bottom of the Vista Windows Sill.

the crappiest

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the crappiest wanna be with little integration with anything else web browser I have seen in a while.

crap

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crap

the reason I finally got rid of firefox ….

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for good.

Like ET…

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because it phones home

1 digit more than IE 6

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And will be bloated, big time.

a test platform for new tech

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MS has some great ideas in IE, they just get overly ambitious and release insecure code. If a technology introduced by IE survives a year without being exploited or creating usability issues, however, I think the W3C should look into the viability of adding it to the next standards RFC.

IE has fallen and it can’t get up

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… something you shouldn’t try until its out of beta as they broke the javascript support and attempting to uninstall it will break your previous version of IE 6.

Now IE routes any web page request (even if its typed in IE’s address bar) over to Firefox even though Firefox isn’t my default browser. Not necessarily a bad thing but …

Amateurish and unpolished.

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I have both Firefox 1.0.7 and IE7 on my computer. In comparison, IE7 is clunky and unpolished. The Firefox interface is much more polished. IE7 is like Firefox on thorazine.

– The Firefox tab navigator at the top is better.
– The IE7 toolbars are not flexible.
– IE7 is slower than Firefox
– Firefox just looks nicer and is more intuitive.

Internet Explorer 7 is…

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Buggy and broken. Opening multiple tabs in IE7B2 consistently and repeatedly crashed the browser.

More money for Micro$oft from the

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Even if it’s free, They’ll still sell books to IT departments on how to ‘secure’ IE 7, how you can use it more efficiently, etc.

More money for Micro$oft from the unwashed masses

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More and more money for Micro$oft from the unwashed masses. Even if it’s free, They’ll still sell books to IT departments on how to ‘secure’ IE 7, how you can use it more efficiently, etc.

Internet Explorer 7 works great after clean install

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If a version prior to IE6 existed(upgraded from earlier versions ) on your pc then IE7 tends to burrpphht and well does not do it gracefully. Otherwise the machines I have installed on have had firefox replaced with IE7.

Same old Stuff with a New Face

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Same old Stuff with a New Face

The sh**, and i mean sh** Kidding!

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I use IE it s fxnal 4 me

Irrelevant

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… Irrelevant, it won’t run on my OS.

IE 7 is

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a memory hog on my PC, plus it won’t keep my history any more than just today despite my settings requesting a 90 day save.

haven’t tried it yet, but…

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Pretty sure it’s just the latest and greatest bloatware. Got better ways to spend my time.

…not on my radar

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I doubt that Micosoft could do anything to IE7, IE8, or IE9 that would me me think about making it my browser of choice. The only interest i have in it at all is that i have to support the poor bastards that still use it.

IE 7

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Internet Explorer 7 is… better than Internet Explorer 6, wow.

…as the feeling you’d get when…

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…you’re a new parent who has just found out his child has down’s syndrome, Tourettes syndrome, and encephalitis.

Aside from it being “innovative” (give me a break) I don’t want to have to learn it. Things aren’t where they’re supposed to be. Firefox is firefox. IE is…well, a hack magnet.

“Things aren’t where they’re supposed to be.”

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Exactly as with every new piece of sw they release, everything has moved, or has to administered in another way.

And yet it is the move away from Microsoft to anything else that has so steep a learning barrier that it is impossible to do. But when Microsoft desides to create a new menusystem, completely change the administartive panels or create totally different ways of doing things, it’s easy, intuitive and a great innovation – the most misused word on the planet today.

well

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It’s just another version of I.E of which 50% of the geek community will critize but use it still.

here’s your 10 words …

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“Internet Explorer 7 is…”

1. irrelevant
2. unoriginal
3. unimaginative
4. ridiculous
5. shameless
6. tardy
7. clunky
8. ugly
9. unoriginal (deserves to be mentioned twice)
10.insecure (why should this version be any different).

However, I bet it will integrate nicely with Vista, AKA Windows 2009. What a joke! They must be printing all the money they’re making over there because their products are just crap anymore.

Internet Exploiter 7 is….

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still not my default browser.

“Internet Explorer 7 is…”

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“Internet Explorer 7 is…” a good reason to use FireFox!

reasonably good

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at what it does.

Internet 7 is…

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Missing on my computer due to MS screwups!!!!!

not on any of my computers…

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not on any of my computers…

awesome

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now if Firefox would just rip of the good parts of IE7 we would have a real winner.

Massive PITA…Does not play well with non-MS Apps

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Loaded IE7: Version 7.0.5335.5 , Build 65335
on two XP SP2 laptops (Pentium M, 1024K RAM, one Dell D600, one IBM T30)…and would not work with two different CRE/Help Desk apps, and several Sharepoint forms (incomplete screens, hung apps, etc) …when trying to uninstall, corrupted one registry, simply will not allow uninstall of other…AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

On the positive side, I like the screen magnify function and the anti-phising functions…but this still uses 30% more ram and loads 20% slower than firefox…maybe they will get it right by vista…if not, will continue Firefox when able.

IE7 Massive PITA

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Thanks for letting me know about the problems that you have been having. I am using Firefox 1.5.0.3, and am very happy. Will not even consider downloading IE7 again anytime soon. Guess I will just wait until the ship it with Vista!!!! I had 3 previous crashes trying to download and install the IE7 beta, but sounds like it is not worth it. My Firefox works so smooth, cannot imagine that anything that Microsoft will turn out will make me return to their browser. I was a previous Netscape user. I have IE6 on my computer, but only use it when it is absolutely necessary to view page.

Just think of it this way

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If Vista had of been released on time this is what we would be using now without any choice. 😀

If Vista works as badly as the Beta Version of IE7 then it’s going to be a very long time before it hits the streets and the First Quarter next year seems more than a bit optimistic to me. 😉

Col ]:)

Bumpkis

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Actually, less than bumpkis.

I might be willing to try the finished IE7…

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…but I’m 65 years old and on dialysis and don’t think I’ll be around long enough to ever see a finished version of IE7.

IE7 is…

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The worst implementation of a user interface, ever…

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