Posted on 03/17/2015 8:18:12 AM PDT by lbryce
The end is finally in sight for Microsoft’s long-fraught Internet Explorer. At the Microsoft Convergence conference yesterday in Atlanta, Georgia, Chris Capossela, Microsoft’s head of marketing, said that the new flagship browser for Windows, which was announced in January and is codenamed Project Spartan, will not be associated with the Internet Explorer brand.
While Internet Explorer will still exist on Windows 10 for compatibility purposes, it will take a back seat to the new browser.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Internet Explorer was never meant to be better than Netscape, just more accessible. And it never was anything but a last minute stuck together Microsoft Netscape killer. In the intervening years of no alternative to Internet Explorer Microsoft did about nothing to add to its capabilities because it had no need to. And then when Firefox and a slew of other browsers came along all they bothered to do with IE was merely cosmetic. whatever iteration IE will transmorph into, it willl surely be an improvement.
Oy that seals it I think I finally have to get a new computer.
Why? A browser is simply a program you can delete or add at will and does not require the acquisition of a new computer.
Just don’t use IE; leave it ‘dormant’. I use Opera or Chrome, with Thunderbird, but still remember the good years with Netscape 2-9 and Eudora.
...the new browser...
Headline seems quite misleading.
Your Windows 3.0 starting to run a little slow on that dial up modem, eh?
The brand is not the problem, the technology is.
The guy that created Opera browser is making a New`one Vivaldi browser ,Technical Preview form
I have learned that with Microsoft something new is not necessarily better. It only means that they can charge for the “new” item. Maybe eventually after many versions and revisions it might work but they always rush everything to market before it is ready and we as the consumer are stuck with their crappy revisions and updates. Whenever I get a revision or update from Microsoft I think IF IT AIN’T BROKE WHY THE HELL DO THEY HAVE TO FIX IT. Every time they come out with a new whatever it resets all of my settings and I spend a whole day customizing it.
It’s older than the hills. I have IE7 with XP and some pages have been loading weird anyway. Don’t want to add more memory, will probably be looking for a box only, I have a nice monitor and keyboard still works. Looking for something like new old stock with windows 7 on it. I have a notebook which I use more often for email and browsing. I use the old desktop for creating documents, photos,taxes anything that needs printing.
Not that bad, we got DSL about 2 years ago, we are out in the boonies and like it. I have an even older desktop box we are going to just slap paper targets on and use for practice.
My Opera(S) have been so slow and glitchy lately. There doesn’t seem to be a browser that actually works.
one less crapwares...
Yeah, I have a few machines that use XP still with IE7. More and more pages won’t load right, because IE7 doesn’t handle the new HTML5 standard that a lot of websites are switching to.
In those cases, I just use firefox and everything seems to work fine. So, you may not need to replace the computer, if that is your only issue. Just load another browser to use for when IE doesn’t work.
As if FF or Chrome are some sort of prize?
Both are bloated, and will easily lead you to having to shut them down before they consume almost a gig of RAM and way too much CPU. Add the Flash plug-in too either, and they are worse.
I'm finding more and more reasons for not looking forward to Windows 10.
IE is the biggest POS browser ever... Evuh!
Netscrape and Eudorka....Ah, the good old days...
Yep, I’m waiting until they get past the beta stage to try it. I’m still leery of betas. Have you tried it yet?
Wasn’t it Nutscrape? LOL.
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