Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer
by Volker Weber
Daniel Miessler on Lockergnome's Tech News Watch:
The time has come to dump Internet Explorer. I know, I know — you may have heard the same thing before from those that think it’s cool to hate Microsoft; but I’m not one of those guys. I’m actually an MCSE and I happen to like quite a few of Microsoft’s products. My argument is simple: the benefits of using IE are too few - and the faults too great — to put off the adoption of an alternative any longer.
Do I see some Microsoft friends wake up on the fact that Redmond has stopped development of the browser because web apps threaten the Windows franchise?
Comments
The problem isn't only to convince users to dump IE and use something else. There are a lot of tools that use IE internally to render web pages (on the Internet or local as help files). AFAIK because the API is easy to use. And the user has no chance to switch this.
Examples are surely most RSS aggregators on Windows, Notes (depends on settings, but can only use other browsers by opening them in an own window, not "internal" as tab), mail clients etc.
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