Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 19th Oct 2006 21:13 UTC
Internet Explorer "When eWEEK Labs looked at Internet Explorer 6.0 more than five years ago, we were so disappointed in the browser that we said the only reason to upgrade to it was because it was free. That means you'd have to go back nearly nine years to find a release of the Microsoft browser that we found to be significant: IE 5.0. But with the release Oct. 18 of Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft is finally back in the Web browser game in a serious way: IE 7 takes major strides in reversing Microsoft's neglect of the flagship browser." And, surprise.
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RE: Shocked and appauled
by raver31 on Fri 20th Oct 2006 09:28 UTC in reply to "Shocked and appauled"
raver31
Member since:
2005-07-06

It is in fact a correct statement.

As you all know Firefox is cross platform, and more and more people are switching to it everyday.

However,

The biggest competitor to IE7 is IE6, and this does not just run under Windows.

It will run sweetly under Wine and also Crossover Office.

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RE[2]: Shocked and appauled
by g2devi on Fri 20th Oct 2006 13:36 in reply to "RE: Shocked and appauled"
g2devi Member since:
2005-07-09

Actually, IE only runs under Windows. WINE is essentially a Windows layer for non-Windows machines.

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RE[3]: Shocked and appauled
by slight on Fri 20th Oct 2006 13:55 in reply to "RE[2]: Shocked and appauled"
slight Member since:
2006-09-10

It's a compatibility layer. There's no Windows code involved.

So actually IE does run on other OSs

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