Comments on: Big Internet Explorer News!!

By: Legal Hallucinogens

Legal Hallucinogens — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:59:31 +0000

In my opinion all these extensions make Firefox so powerful. In order to be competitive IE needs more extensions. Right now it's just not customizable enough in my opinion. It's not a bad browser, I'm quite happy with IEv8 but it simply lacks some of the Firefox's features.

By: Shaneen Clarke

Shaneen Clarke — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:03:52 +0000

I agree, eversince IE usually crashes everytime I use it. I hope they will do something on beating Firefox.

By: Geek 2.0 — Jonathan Rass » Blog Archive » A christmas present from Microsoft

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:43:32 +0000

[...] the last “update” of IE 7 and the questionable communication policy in the IEBlog I am very happy to see that things can change. :-) Thanks, Mr. Gates for bringing [...]

By: Bread and Circuits » Blog Archive » Firefox Ready for the Enterprise? Check.

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:24:13 +0000

[...] on the scale of Seneca can’t afford to follow Microsoft’s release cycle any more. The lack of transparency, disregard for standards, and approach to security make it an [...]

By: Wladimir Palant

Wladimir Palant — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:50:25 +0000

My reaction when I saw Dean’s post was exactly the one you describe. I didn’t see that you already blogged about it and I put up my own blog post: http://adblockplus.org/blog/what-is-going-on-with-internet-explorer

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:10:41 +0000

Sigh…lets hope they do more than just change the hack character again.

By: The Browser Den » Blog Archive » IE8, it’s got a name!

The Browser Den » Blog Archive » IE8, it’s got a name! — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:15:27 +0000

[...] After a long silence, the Microsoft IE team finally announce some long awaited news on IE8, it’s going to be called Internet Explorer 8. After months of silence I’m glad they cleared that one up! No news on features, bugfixes, etc. Ex-Microsoft employee Al Billings (who was responsible for a lot of the IE7 blogging) puts it well. [...]

By: n-blue

n-blue — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:26:02 +0000

Thanks for transcript, looking for it.

By: Al

Al — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:03:47 +0000

I’d ask you to comment, Will, but I generally respect that the people that I still know on the IE team don’t want to touch a tar baby unless it is their job. :-)

By: Al

Al — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:01:06 +0000

Not a clue, Will. I just call ‘em like I see ‘em when it comes to IE.

As anyone looking at my normal posting knows, it goes from Buddhism to Geekery to Cheese Sandwich blogging with an occasional nod to my academic work. The posts are only about as consistent as my poor brain.

I’m noodling on some of the Mozilla MailCo and next generation messaging stuff but at this point it is just in the same realm of speculation as before so I don’t have much to say right now.