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  1. Comment - 3 Million IE7 Downloads in 4 Days

    (Oct 26, 2006 - 4:33 PM)

    I hope that I was not being angry. I was, in fact, rather amused.

    I don't hate MS or MS IE and should IE7 prove itself - time will tell - to be as bullet proof as it claims, then I will consider it to be, indeed, professional.

    As further proof of my not hating MS, I have 4 machines all running XP and all pass the "Genuine Advantage" test. I have my own legal copy of MS Office, Visual Studio.NET and at least 20 items on my start menu are from MS.

    Having said that, however, a few more reasons why I mostly use something other than MS IE include:
    (1) competition; how long did we need to use an add-on before we had tabbed browsing in IE7? How long would it have been without competition???

    (2) I use the Internet a lot. I am on most of the time. I like to be a small target to the bad guys. I used Opera while MS was coming up with fixes for IE holes. This is another reason why I use alternate browsers. What bad guy will waste time going after the other browsers - especially since ones using the other browsers are most likely much better protected.

    OK, I've wasted enough time today on this.

  2. Comment - 3 Million IE7 Downloads in 4 Days

    (Oct 26, 2006 - 11:44 AM)

    To WRFan,
    Actually I was arguing that all the numbers for actual browser usage are questionable - which you so ably pointed out.

    Also, I admit to being fickle. I used IE exclusively for many years. Then I found Opera and used it. Lately I have used Firefox - mainly for the plug-ins.

    3 stand out: ReminderFox lets me stay within my browser and still have all my TODO and schedule info immediately available, the built in spell checker saves me many potential embarrassments and Performancing allows me to write my blogs in the Firefox and then post directly.

    I have no doubt that I will change again sometime. We'll see what IE7 becomes.

  3. Comment - 3 Million IE7 Downloads in 4 Days

    (Oct 26, 2006 - 10:56 AM)

    Interesting numbers, but, just because I downloaded it - which I did - does not mean that I use it. I still use Firefox 99% of the time.

    I wonder how this applies to others?