Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 19th Mar 2009 13:51 UTC, submitted by shaneco
Internet Explorer About a year after the first beta (which was followed by another beta and a release candidate), Microsoft has announced the release of the final version of Internet Explorer 8, the company's newest browser. The focus of Internet Explorer 8 is better standards compliance, security, and making "common online tasks faster and easier".
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RE[3]: Forced Upgrade
by kaiwai on Thu 19th Mar 2009 20:51 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Forced Upgrade"
kaiwai
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2005-07-06

No. They have websites they have to use that won't work in anything but internet explorer. Thank you US Government for helping the Microsoft Monopoly. ;)


Ooh, the temptation to go on one of my Ayn Rand/Libertarian trademark rants over the evils of big government and how it entrenches monopolistic bebehavior is very intense ;)

Lets put it this way; if government wasn't so big, and people's reliance of having to interact with it on some level was that of being trivial (and the limited amount required was done using open standards formats) - then maybe we wouldn't have the entrenched Microsoft monopoly because of it ;)

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