Re: Call for Windows IE 7 Boycott...

From: Imhotep (Imhotep_at_nospam.com)
Date: 08/03/05 

Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 12:34:53 GMT

Winged wrote:

> Imhotep wrote:
>> A little off topic but interesting (and the article came from a Windows
>> advocate too!)
>>
>> http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/02/1853256&from=rss
>>
>> -Im
> The link within the link isn't bad, but barely touches the issues. The
> MS focus on their ".NET" initiatives (which the other browsers will not
> support) and their continued focus on activeX controls in the Beta
> ensure their insecurity for eons to come.
>
> IE 7 isn't off topic. The web browser and e-mail are 2 of the most
> common ways to compromise a system.
>
> This document I found informative: Technical overview of IE 7
>
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=718E9B3A-64FE-4A4C-9DDF-57AF0472EAD2&displaylang=en
>
> It is inexcusable that MS has not made progress in supporting CSS
> standards. More it appears that MS really doesn't care much about
> standards but plans on continuing down the proprietary road. .NET has
> many of the client security flaws of activeX, now these exploits can be
> done using more languages.
>
> The MSDN MS Blog on IE7 also provides insight:
> http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/07/29/445242.aspx
>
> Here is some comments and screen shots:
> http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2005/07/28/ie7_css_upda/
> http://www.clothedandy.com/Writings/IE%207%20Beta%201/
>
> From what I have read, think I'll stick with Firefox. I haven't loaded
> the beta on a test machine yet, as I see nothing that makes me want to
> expend the effort. To me it is amazing that a company who brags on
> innovation has so little innovative in the IE product. If they spent a
> fraction of their time supporting the user instead of supporting the
> DCMA they would be on the right track. MS got its start by supporting
> open hardware standards. With Vista they are trying to close things to
> a proprietary platform. I am not impressed. I don't believe my
> interests are supported by the Vista platform nor the IE7 browser.
> Boycott, no, I plan on going other directions, boycott infers I plan to
> return.
>
> Winged

Very well said....I could not agree more.

Im

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