Microsoft preps early delivery of IE10 for Windows 7

Layback Bear said:

Yesterday on a Cleveland radio station (WTAM-1100) news they had a report of the amount of money Microsoft is spending in the next few month to promote I.E. 10.
I can't remember ever hearing anything on the radio station like that before about any browser.

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Odd for sure, I've never seen any news about MS on broadcast media, other than the annoying infomercials. M$ may have issued a well crafted news release to spark interest.

I can't even update my router's firmware using IE10, I have to use a Windows 7 machine with IE9 for that.

I also can't run my .gws router settings file using IE10. I'm sure that many others will be surprised to find out they have the same problems when using IE10.

I even tried to disable the security and script blocking to no avail.

Does Msoft really not work out these problems before they release a new browser version?

Sure it's more secure than IE9 but if you can't use it to do normal stuff then what good is it?

chev65 said:

Does Msoft really not work out these problems before they release a new browser version?

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Impossible. Accounting for every crapware out there is an impossible task. Your router not functioning with IE10 is a problem with the router itself. Most likely it is browser sniffing (WHICH IS BAD) and getting hanged up on the new version number. Seen this before when other browsers reached version 10. Piss poor browser sniffing scripts saw them as version 1 instead of 10.

Either way, use combatability mode in IE 10. Is for fooling websites into thinking it is an older version.

logicearth said:

...Either way, use combatability mode in IE 10. Is for fooling websites into thinking it is an older version.

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War of the browsers? War between browsers and routers? Nothing like a little violence.

Hmm, IE10, the Vista of browsers?

Britton30 said:

Hmm, IE10, the Vista of browsers?

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No, that was IE8.

IE10, the Win 8 of browsers?

If IE8 was the Vista of browsers, what was IE6?

Hi there

Forget the IE10 preview that some might have tried on W7 last November - the REAL version is superior by far.

@ poster with the router problem :

Not sure what the problem is with a Router and IE10 unless your router has some weird addressing scheme.

I've used IE10 on W8 -- and let's ignore the general abhorrence with W8 on this forum and stick to the issue (We can't test IE10 on W7 yet and anybody outside an Ms test lab who says they have done this are just telling porkies).

IE10 is superior in EVERY WAY to IE9 -- for starters you don't need adobe flash to be installed any more, IE10 has minimal addons (why browsers should be full of bloated addons always amazes me --that's why I gave up Firefox PDQ), code has been considerably improved for performance and has considerably enhanced security.

Not only that the security updates for IE10 will be considerably more robust than for IE9 - that's been my experience in using it with W8 - and there's no reason to suppose the backport to W7 will perform worse than it does on W8 (which is very good).

Note you get HTML5 and CSS3 support as well as HTML touch events if you have touch screens etc.

I'm talking about the standard DESKTOP -- I.E Windowed version of IE10 -- not the full screen Metro version --- on W8 it's possible to run IE10 in 2 different modes. I haven't tested the metro version as I hate that part of W8.


I can't wait to see IE10 on W7

Cheers
jimbo

Windows 911 said:

If IE8 was the Vista of browsers, what was IE6?

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Windows ME

z3r010 said:

Windows 911 said:

If IE8 was the Vista of browsers, what was IE6?

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Windows ME

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Hi there
Windows Me -- I've still got an install disk but never installed it. -- Was it really THAT bad !!! maybe I should try it as a VM. !!

Cheers
jimbo

You are right! How can I forget about ME? I remember using that train wreck of an OS. Oh, the good ol' days.

Win ME was superior in every way to Win98 - but suffered from Nortonitis 50% of the time.
Most machines at that time were shipped with Norton pre-installed, and the version shipped with most of them wasn't actually compatible - and it wasn't until well after XP was launched that Norton finally got to grips with System Restore and its implications.

Many machines also shipped (or ended up with) Norton System Doctor installed - and that would eventually kill the system by creating a new file in the Windows folder every 10 seconds until FAT32 ran out of places to put them - this effectively stopped the machine stone dead, until you deleted the files. (and we won't mention Go-back)

Once Norton was exterminated, the OS was great.

It had two notable 'firsts'
It was the first product with System Restore
It was the first Consumer product to do away with DOS

It was also the first product to support USB out of the box properly.

( - and it got me my MVP back-in-the-day, as well )

I used Norton quite successfully with XP. Takes know-how.

With that comment, I'm losing the very little respect I still had to the MVP thing
Can't be serious, really.

alejandro85 said:

with that comment, i'm losing the very little respect i still had to the mvp thing
can't be serious, really.

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NoelDP said:

It was the first Consumer product to do away with DOS

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DOS was still very much there. Micro$oft just hid it and it caused all manner of issues with some games. It was 98 third edition with Windows 2000 type icons and crippled by deleting the PIF files in Windows.It was by far the worst OS ever. Windows 98SE was actually fairly good except for that General Protection Error that showed up once in a while. Who was General Protection and what did he want with my computer?
I only used ME for a few weeks, I was lucky enough to get a copy of Windows 2000 from my employer at the time. Now that was the leanest and meanest OS they ever made as long as you only ran new programs on it. Old crap from 95 did not work or needed so many hoops to fiddle with. NT4 stuff usually worked OK too. Ran that at home for about 2 or 3 years and that was awesome. You could really multitask with it. You could play Quake and music on Winamp at the same time without the music or the game going walkabout. I remember Netscape 3.X being a great browser and the IE 4 update to the 95 desktop meaning if you did not have 16mb of ram it ran slower than treacle downhill. Got paid well to uninstall the browser update and or added more ram to friends machines back then. Seriously slow, like 10 mins to load to the desktop on 4 mb of ram. ME is about the only M$ OS post 3.11I don't have a virtual machine for.
I use Firefox but I am getting a little fed up of the constant version updates......
Am I showing my age?

IE-10 pre release

I have been using IE-10 pre release since middle of november.
I will give it nothing but praise and would recommend it to everyone.
I also use Opera 12.14 but find IE-10 is faster.
Seems like alot of you are afraid of IE.
Why???

When people find something they like, they tend to stick with it. Also, IE 6 was so terrible and we were forced to either use it or either firefox/opera for so long, that many people assume any version of IE is terrible. It didn't help that IE7 was also pretty bad.

I have not used firefox since 2.0, because for some reason when I installed 2.0 I couldn't log in to any websites. I also got sick of it constantly forcing me to close it to install updates. Burned once, never looked back. I used Chrome faithfully for a while, until it let a website download a virus to my computer (it literally downloaded it to my downloads folder). Thank god for MSE. Burned once, never looked back. That was right around the time IE9 RC came out. I've never had a problem with IE9 or 10.

EDIT: That isn't to say that there is problem with using one of those browsers and not IE10. Just stating my reasons for liking IE and not Firefox or Chrome, and why I think many people are resistant to using IE.

philtec said:

I have been using IE-10 pre release since middle of november.
I will give it nothing but praise and would recommend it to everyone.
I also use Opera 12.14 but find IE-10 is faster.
Seems like alot of you are afraid of IE.
Why???

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Good question. There seems to be the misconception, too, that IE is not as secure as "ABC Browser". IE is all I have used asided from Netscape back in 2000 or so. For me, it just works.