[Zarax]

http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/2005/02-15RSA05.asp

It will be Microsoft's most anticipated beta...
Most MVPs, and web-related ones even more, are readying to stress test it as soon as there will be a beta...
So, for those who like the MS browser it's time to rejoice...
Let's hope that MS will do at least a work as good as SP2

[aldo_14]

{deeply cynical}

Does it come with all new security holes?

{/deeply cynical}

[Primus]

Nooo... Firefox!

[Taristin]

Originally posted by Zarax


It will be Microsoft's most anticipated beta...

//By Who?

Most MVPs, and web-related ones even more, are readying to stress test it as soon as there will be a beta...


//You mean the script kiddies just waiting to pounce on an all new version of IE with even bigger and better security gaps?

So, for those who like the MS browser it's time to rejoice...


//hahahahahaha!

Let's hope that MS will do at least a work as good as SP2


//I refer you to my last comment.

[Andreas]

Originally posted by Zarax

Let's hope that MS will do at least a work as good as SP2

Besides, I use Firefox

[Zarax]

Thanks for yout sarcasm, much obliged...

[kasperl]

Well, seriously, if I look at the amount of patches we get, and the amount of leaks still in there, I'm staying with Mozilla. Is there a patch for the MSN vuln out yet? Half of my class got it last night.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Primus
Nooo... Firefox!

Nooo... Opera!

[Gloriano]

Let's hope that MS will do at least a work as good as SP2

 I hope that they have learned from past mistakes

[karajorma]

I did wonder when MS were going to finally respond to Firefox taking such a large share of the market.

Sadly for them the world is now a different place.  Unlike Netscape I don't see the Mozilla team sitting on their hands for 2 years while MS achieve dominance again

[Zarax]

Originally posted by kasperl
Well, seriously, if I look at the amount of patches we get, and the amount of leaks still in there, I'm staying with Mozilla. Is there a patch for the MSN vuln out yet? Half of my class got it last night.

Yes, you should receive a popup in your MSN requesting if you want to update it.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by karajorma
I did wonder when MS were going to finally respond to Firefox taking such a large share of the market.

Sadly for them the world is now a different place.  Unlike Netscape I don't see the Mozilla team sitting on their hands for 2 years while MS achieve dominance again

Well, they probably won't do anything except ape Firefox' more popular features anyways, and leave the security vulnerabilities that undoubtedly will emerge to be handled by that proprietary anti-virus / spyware program being developed.  Which of course would layer another clump of CPU/memory usage on top of the already huge Windows requirements.

[karajorma]

I don't doubt that for a second Aldo.

[kasperl]

Originally posted by Zarax


Yes, you should receive a popup in your MSN requesting if you want to update it.

Nope, and due to my ISP being bollocks, I have reconnected 3 times  in the last hour. Or will non-English users have to wait another week of vulnerability untill they fix it for us too?

[Zarax]

Try Windows Update then...
I'm not an english user but i received it a couple of days ago...

[Grey Wolf]

Odds are I won't even be able to install it on the computer I'm about to build, as they'll probably do the "XP SP2 ONLY!" thing again, and I have this marked distrust of XP.

[Falcon]

Internet Explorer more like Internet Hazard never did like the browser to begin with

*is using Firefox*

Oh and btw is there a way to remove internet explorer from ones computer and that MSN messenger?

[Grey Wolf]

If you disable Windows File Protection, you can delete iexplore.exe itself, but that doesn't do much. It's too well integrated with the OS to do much more.

[Mongoose]

Ooh, so they're going to put a shiny new skin on the absolute suckage that is their "browser"?

[WMCoolmon]

'I'm not surprised.

And yeah, I expect this next version to have tabbed browsing, or some MS substitute. I'll wait to pass judgement, they just might surprise us. Why I feel that way, I don't know, the first thing I do when I install XP is install Firefox.