IE7 - My Turn, Finally

But I had to reject it.

I have finally received an offer to auto update to Internet Explorer 7 yesterday morning when I turn on my laptop.

As my work is all about web, I would need to test my work on at least the browser that most people are still using today, IE6, I had to reject the offer and stick with the ugly and useless IE6.

What I’m surprised that my desktop is on almost throughout the day everyday but haven’t received the IE7 auto update offer. Why can’t Microsoft be more efficient in distributing IE7 like how they distribute their security patches every first Tuesday of the month?

I want people to switch to IE7, so I can switch. It just sucks that way that IE is part of Windows XP and I can’t have 2 versions of IE on the same machine. Maybe after Microsoft is pushing IE7 hard to the user in their automatic updates, IE6 might still remain as the dominant browser for the abundant of pirated users of Windows XP in this region. Then I guess I’ll have to wait until Vista is out before I upgrade.

I’m actually looking forward to upgrade the IE on my desktop as my laptop is more like a workstation where I do most of my web programming work, but I haven’t got any offer to upgrade so far. I know I can manually download it off the web, but I do not want to and I want to see how long it takes for Microsoft to offer the upgrade to my desktop.

I really do not understand why Microsoft is taking so long to distribute IE7? Is it because they are not confident of IE7 and are conducting sort of an open beta-test to the current IE7 users?

Weird.

December 7th, 2006 / 5 Comments / Trackback

There are ways to run both IE6 & IE7 together i think i saw it mentioned on Lifehacker.com or somewhere… can’t remember. Anyway hope this link helps.

http://www.tech-recipes.com/internet_explorer_ie7_tips1188.html

(O_o) nickpan on December 7th, 2006 at 11:58 am

Nickpan, thanks a lot for the link. I’ve never knew that it’s possible.

uzyn on December 7th, 2006 at 12:01 pm

ppl give u free things also u want to tarik harga? want them to send to ur doorsteps and give you a knock? Hm… dun ya think that’s a little too much to ask?

I’ve upgraded mine. Noticed smth which is the standard buttons are hidden by default, chinese characters is not legible yet, and also PDF files can’t be view over on the browser.

For the tab browser thingy, i wonder if they can intergrate functions with yahoo messanger/msn messanger so that I can open those links on the same window instead of various different windows.

nesohu on December 7th, 2006 at 6:40 pm

Dude, I think your ego needs some checkup.

I want to accept free things, buddy. Can’t you understand the reason why I can’t? And I did not mention a single thing about IE7 being bad.

uzyn on December 8th, 2006 at 10:37 pm

I might be sick, apologies for that. Anyway, I’ll called up my egologist for an appointment on Monday.

NESOHU on December 9th, 2006 at 12:18 am

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