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SpaceGirl wrote:
> Matt Probert wrote:
>> Sharif asked the question, "who loves IE?", after due reflection I
>> realised that I love IE.
>>
>> Microsoft's Internet Explorer, bundled with Windows which is bundled
>> with domestic computers brought the Internet to millions of ordinary
>> domestic users. Millions of people who otherwise should not have
>> discovered the "disinformation highway" (thanks to John Lydon for
>> that name).
>>
>> Some technicians dislike Internet Explorer, some for its potential
>> security problems, and without a doubt it does have issues - I think
>> the close incorporation with the rest of the operating system
>> allowing executable programs to be transfered was in hind sight a
>> mistake, probably a naive design fault which under estimated the
>> nefarious nature of disturbed teenagers.
>>
>> But if Internet Explorer is as "BASIC" was to computer languages
>> twenty years ago, then so be it. Just as BASIC provided a
>> kindergarten introduction to computing for the masses, so has
>> Internet Explorer provided a similar introduction to the WWW.
>>
>> Matt Probert
>>
>
> IE played its role... there would be no FireFox if IE hann't been so
> popular, and I'm sure there would be a lot less people using the
> Internet - or *maybe* the Internet would be different at least. I
> think IE came around at the right time. It gave everyone a simple
> unified way of getting onto the Net, without the complications of
> downloads, builds, and strange unknown software for those Open Source
> folks. But she's old, and falling apart now! Time to move on...
> eveyone KNOWS what the Internet is and roughly how to use it.

Move on to what? Theres nothing out there that has beaten IE yet.

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