IE7 low acceptance ? Maybe…
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Interesting move of Microsoft today...
On a post on the IEBlog they have announced a new update of their latest revision of Internet Explorer.
Nothing much spectacular, except for a laconic sentence:
Internet Explorer 7 installation will no longer require Windows Genuine
Advantage validation and will be available to all Windows XP users.
Could it be that even by pushing the updates to their clients, the adoption rate is so low that they decided that even people having illegitimate copy of their exploitation system should be able to run IE7 ?
I personally think that way. To me, it's just a way to make the IE7 user share grow bigger in stats.
But still, an interesting move.
What do you think ? Would it help IE to keep it's dominance, or is it just a lost cause ?
I surely hope for the second, but he, I'm just a linux guy :-P
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I’m not sure … personally I hope this kills off IE 666. I can’t use png files on my site because the majority still uses the browser of death.
Are you paying any attention to Silver Light? My company is pushing to use it, even though it’s IE only. I think they’re trying to hold onto their death grip over the whole of computing.
I surely hope it too.
IE6 is just a piece of junk that have no places in today computer era (imho).
I too have to live with it (and js with IE is just the hellish nightmare you can have), but I too hope this annoucement will get us ride of it.
About silverlight, I have to admit I never really looked at it. But I sure will.
The fact that you say it’s IE only trigger a big red cannon to fire at it, but I won’t light the fuse before a review.
But isn’t silverlight more a concurrent of Flash, than an ajax library ?
Anyway, I’ll take a look on it. You trigered my interest.
By the way, do you remember Atlas ? The first ASP.NET 2 ajax toolkit ?
It was labeled as “cross browser”. Well, for microsoft, cross browser was IE and Firefox.
The rest, bah, they are not real browsers….
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/04/21/atlas-disappoints-in-cross-browser-support/
http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/4/18/3648
http://www.musingsfrommars.org/2006/04/nothing-to-cheer-here-microsoft-atlas.html