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Title: Are Microsoft taking notes?
Post by: Den on Sep 02, 2008, 18:47:42
Is this Microsoft listening at last  ;D

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/index.cfm?reviewid=103602

Sounds to good to be true  8)
Title: Re: Are Microsoft taking notes?
Post by: Rik on Sep 02, 2008, 18:51:27
My jury remains out, Den. ;)
Title: Re: Are Microsoft taking notes?
Post by: john on Sep 02, 2008, 18:56:44
Quote from: Rik on Sep 02, 2008, 18:51:27
My jury remains out, Den. ;)

Well please put it away again now !  ;D
Title: Re: Are Microsoft taking notes?
Post by: Rik on Sep 03, 2008, 10:17:35
 :rofl: :clever:
Title: Re: Are Microsoft taking notes?
Post by: esh on Sep 05, 2008, 18:50:32
Does it run on XP? I wonder...

I daren't let the Win2k boxes here run on IE6.5, it's just too much of a hazard to the user and to the machine. Opera 9.2 is order of the day here for the most part. Haven't tried this Chrome thing yet... no adblocker from what I hear. Not surprising since I wonder how Google makes its money...
Title: Re: Are Microsoft taking notes?
Post by: Rik on Sep 05, 2008, 18:53:03
It must do, Esh as there are warnings about installing it before SP3.
Title: Re: Are Microsoft taking notes?
Post by: Sebby on Sep 05, 2008, 19:10:33
I'm sure IE8 will be the best version yet. I just can't see myself moving from Firefox now, though.
Title: Re: Are Microsoft taking notes?
Post by: David on Sep 05, 2008, 19:14:15
Quote from: john on Sep 02, 2008, 18:56:44
Well please put it away again now !  ;D
:hehe: :rofl: :karmic: Brilliant
Title: Re: Are Microsoft taking notes?
Post by: john on Sep 05, 2008, 19:56:12
Thanks David :thnks:

I've installed IE8 myself and it generally works fine although it has occaisionally hung with a Java error. However when you kill it, although it closes all open IE8 windows/tabs it does ask if you want them restoring again next time you invoke it. As it's still in beta I have no doubt it will be fixed in the proper version.
Title: Re: Are Microsoft taking notes?
Post by: Ann on Sep 06, 2008, 10:20:17
I like it.  I never saw any real advantage to tabs in IE7 and had turned them off but am using them in IE8 and liking it.
Title: Re: Are Microsoft taking notes?
Post by: Gary on Sep 06, 2008, 11:06:38
Quote from: john on Sep 05, 2008, 19:56:12
Thanks David :thnks:

I've installed IE8 myself and it generally works fine although it has occaisionally hung with a Java error. However when you kill it, although it closes all open IE8 windows/tabs it does ask if you want them restoring again next time you invoke it. As it's still in beta I have no doubt it will be fixed in the proper version.
The java error could be because of issues in the latest java update 7 version 10 the next release should sort that out, also as a beta IE8 will have debugging code, not something I would test without VMware of some kind, removing it or updating makes a mess of the registry