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Originally Posted by sharky_machine 
I read about this a few weeks ago, in the words of Microsoft (paraphrased): "All Windows users will be able to download security patches and service packs no matter the authenticity of their Windows software, while premium downloads such as IE7 will not be authorized to illegal versions."
Why this is exactly I don't know. Perhaps as punishment ? :rolleyes:
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: ) I still prefer firefox, although I am glad Microsoft has finally put out something decent.
Personally, I have no preference. Honestly. Sometimes I'd find myself using Firefox, other times IE. Firefox 3 *does* have some cool features, but they're more like the new features in Vista, than say an actual product revision. Not really enough to warrant me making a cold switch.
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I love FF for it's extensions, I can browse without a mouse, squash all the adds, interogate HTTP Headers ... etc etc etc If I need IE rendering for a non-standards site right click the FF tab and switch rendering engine.
I prefer IE's dev toolbar add-in though and thats when I use IE mostly. IE is perceptably slower to me particularly opening new tabs. It makes my teeth grind sometimes.
I prefer IE's dev toolbar add-in though and thats when I use IE mostly. IE is perceptably slower to me particularly opening new tabs. It makes my teeth grind sometimes.
I use FF because I don't like advertising all over my screen. I particularly hate those roll-over and scroller adds that require that click to close. There may be add-ons to IE that do the same thing but I have not found them (or really tried). I only use IE7 when I am contracted to a house that requires it.
MS is a for-profit business - I can not imagine them being as vigilantly anti-adverts as FF which is a non-profit business. And, of course, I don't trust MS to do anything that interferes with their bottom line. This is why I choose to use Google for all my searching needs, they try very hard to separate search results from advertising. I once used yahoo to search Alzheimer's and got the message "you can purchase Alzheimer's at ----"
MS is a for-profit business - I can not imagine them being as vigilantly anti-adverts as FF which is a non-profit business. And, of course, I don't trust MS to do anything that interferes with their bottom line. This is why I choose to use Google for all my searching needs, they try very hard to separate search results from advertising. I once used yahoo to search Alzheimer's and got the message "you can purchase Alzheimer's at ----"
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Out of curiosity, have any of you tried out the new IE yet? Any thoughts on how it compares?
(disclaimer: I'm not using it yet either...
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Originally Posted by GrimJack
I don't trust MS to do anything that interferes with their bottom line. This is why I choose to use Google for all my searching needs, they try very hard to separate search results from advertising.
I say anybody who trusts one corporation while denouncing another, especially Google over MS, needs therapy.
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Originally Posted by scru
Haha, because Google is *so* much less of a corporation that MS is. As for the advertising, it's not so much that Google wants to hide their ads from you, no, they're just a lot more sneaky with them.
I say anybody who trusts one corporation while denouncing another, especially Google over MS, needs therapy.
and NO! NO! NO! I do not trust google - I use NoScript to block googlesyndication and google-analytics; I do not use googletools or google desktop.
I use trackmenot to confuse search engines; I use TrashMail to confuse registrations.
I use EQuakeAlert to see what is happening geologically around the world (there was an M-5 quake in Indonesia
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> MS and Yahoo put their paid ads within the search results so there is no distinction
GOTO.com (later renamed to Overture) used to do this. Once they were bought out by Yahoo!, they stopped and took on a structure similar to Google. I don't use MSN so I cannot be 100% sure but I don't believe they do this either.
GOTO.com (later renamed to Overture) used to do this. Once they were bought out by Yahoo!, they stopped and took on a structure similar to Google. I don't use MSN so I cannot be 100% sure but I don't believe they do this either.
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