I hate crappy puns, but I still grin when someone calls Internet Explorer Internet Exploder. Download IE9 Release Candidate at BeautyOfTheWeb.com, which is another amusingly ironic URL. Or, you know, use Chrome or Firefox if you’re not under the eye of a totalitarian IT department.
It’s the bane of web designers everywhere, and it makes most modern websites look broken and horrible. So why are 20 per cent of web surfers still using it? More »
Microsoft has acknowledged that they slipped the .NET Framework Assistant plugin into Firefox via Windows Update this past February, and that it has poked a “critical” hole in the browser’s security (effectively bringing Firefox down to IE’s level). More »
Microsoft’s newest attempt to appease the EU is to create a system in which end users can choose their browsers. (Imagine that! Choice!) This is a change from Microsoft’s previous offer to remove Internet Explorer completely from Windows 7. More »
As part of an effort to alleviate its current European Union-sized headache across the Atlantic, Microsoft has volunteered to remove Internet Explorer from Windows 7. The move is an about face for the company, which had previously testified such a removal was impossible. More »
What is best in life? To crush other browsers, see their worm-ridden code driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their fanboys.
