re: M$'s attempts to dominate the Web via incompatibility torques off old M$ users and others Friday, July 17, 2009 at 6:06 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Arminius (121 messages posted) I have never understood why Microsoft should care what browser people use. Since Internet Explorer is included with Windows anyway how does it benefit Microsoft for people to use IE as opposed to some other browser? It isn't as though IE has to bought and paid for, what is the payoff for them? Or is it just a prestige thing? I still use Win98SE with IE5.5sp2 on two boxes I use offline only. My impression was that IE6 sucked on both Win98FE and Win98SE. When IE6 was installed it seemed to make Windows Explorer less stable than it was with IE5.5sp2. I get the feeling as with WMP9, IE6 was supposed to work under Win98 but was not as compatible with Win98 as it ought to have been. And did you know MS still provides updates for IE5.01sp4 under Win2000? Written in response to: M$'s attempts to dominate the Web via incompatibility torques off old M$ users and others (gewg_: Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 1:39 pm) Responses to this message: re: M$'s attempts to dominate the Web via incompatibility torques off old M$ users and others (gewg_: Friday, July 17, 2009 at 11:24 am) re: M$'s attempts to dominate the Web via incompatibility torques off old M$ users and others (Steve: Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 3:27 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] The death knell sounds again for Internet Exploder 6 (gewg_: Wed, Jul 15, 2009, 4:43 pm) re: The death knell sounds again for Internet Exploder 6 (Steve: Wed, Jul 15, 2009, 6:46 pm) re: The death knell sounds again for Internet Exploder 6 (gewg_: Wed, Jul 15, 2009, 8:36 pm) re: The death knell sounds again for Internet Exploder 6 (Steve: Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 5:41 am) M$'s attempts to dominate the Web via incompatibility torques off old M$ users and others (gewg_: Thu, Jul 16, 2009, 1:39 pm) re: M$'s attempts to dominate the Web via incompatibility torques off old M$ users and others (Arminius: Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 6:06 am) re: M$'s attempts to dominate the Web via incompatibility torques off old M$ users and others (gewg_: Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 11:24 am) re: M$'s attempts to dominate the Web via incompatibility torques off old M$ users and others (Arminius: Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 7:47 pm) re: M$'s attempts to dominate the Web via incompatibility torques off old M$ users and others (gewg_: Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 10:03 pm) re: M$'s attempts to dominate the Web via incompatibility torques off old M$ users and others (Steve: Sat, Jul 18, 2009, 3:27 pm) re: The death knell sounds again for Internet Exploder 6 (Keith Stanier: Sun, Jul 19, 2009, 6:04 am) re: The death knell sounds again for Internet Exploder 6 (Steve: Sun, Jul 19, 2009, 7:22 am) re: The death knell sounds again for Internet Exploder 6 (gewg_: Sun, Jul 19, 2009, 12:26 pm) re: The death knell sounds again for Internet Exploder 6 (Steve: Sun, Jul 19, 2009, 4:00 pm) re: The death knell sounds again for Internet Exploder 6 (gewg_: Sun, Jul 19, 2009, 7:01 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum