The issue is IE8
Friday, July 3, 2009 at 12:04 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by MartinM
(7551 messages posted)
Actually it does do this on its own.
I've just finished sorting out something like 30 IE8 installations and I have to
conclude three things:
1. Its not quite finished.
2. I don't care whose fault it is, but the "world" (ie the Internet as it is today,
and which people need to use) and IE8 are not quite in step. The result is that many
sites are simply not properly accessible with IE8. Quite a few of those are Microsoft's
own pages. That may change over time, but its the situation today.
3. Firefox is slightly superior in every respect. I mean "every": I can find no specific
point or area where IE8 takes the honours. I don't have Firefox as a "religion",
these are my own practical findings.
Given the above, making IE8 an update - which many users will therefore receive automatically
- is an act of considerable contempt to users in general. It puts the narrow commercial
interest of Microsoft ahead of usability, security, speed, stability whatever. If
it had been left to users to go get it, a much more informed decision process, that
would have been a much more balanced approach.
Having said all that, it is always a debate whether browser issues are best dealt
with in an Operating System forum like this, or a Browser forum. For IE8 I find that
the latter is best - it is a specialist subject all of its own :-)
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