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You're right, I haven't used version 10 so much as it isn't installed on my Windows partition. Barely one year ago I installed Windows 7 which for some reason s
by evoxed 15y ago
You're right, I haven't used version 10 so much as it isn't installed on my Windows partition. Barely one year ago I installed Windows 7 which for some reason still came with IE7, which I promptly upgraded to IE8. IE9 came out which I skipped on my laptop because Chrome and FF were more productive. What's hard to stomach is the fact that even while Microsoft is willing to push out version after version, the features that I care about (and really, should we still have to call standards compliance and consistency a feature?) seem to improve in only the smallest increments. What's worse is that all of those older versions stay out there, and each major release tends to leave behind its own black whole which I then have to support, for 2-4 more years.
Now all that being said, if IE really has gotten it's act together as you say then I'd be happy to call it a day. Unfortunately no matter how wonderful it is, it probably won't matter until IE8 and IE9 virtually dead (<7.5% of sessions for a site).
Edit: Release schedule of Internet Explorer... IE7: 2006, IE8: 2009, IE9: 2011, IE10: 2011 (announced "3 weeks in development")
- yuhong 15y agoWin7 ships with IE7?
- evoxed 15y agoIt ships with IE8 AFAIK but my copy was a dusty old uni OEM (still got the regular box and code though) which is the only explanation other than a completely shot memory. Some programs not launching right after install lead to a 12hr upgrade session leaving me with whatever shiny new service pack and Explorer was the latest and "greatest".