Microsoft preps early delivery of IE10 for Windows 7

[robertwnielsen]

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???

I'm not necessarily afraid of IE...I use IE9 right now, and will use IE10 when it comes out officially. I used the preview release for a while, but I'm still having issues from it (mainly with the Bing search toolbar, but they're still frustrating.) I just wish Microsoft would get IE10 final for Win 7 out, already!!

 

[NoelDP]

I don't have ANY toolbars installed - in any of the browsers I use - I learned early that they tend to screw the pooch much to easily and much too often. (Yahoo Companion in XP anyone?)

 

[philtec]

Final finished version downloaded today.
Every setting transferred from RC version flawlessly.
I looked pretty hard and could find no difference.

 

[FerchogtX]

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

Windows ME

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

XD... I wish you luck... I used that OS long time ago... and to maintain performance and reduce BSODs to minimum, I had to defrag every week... sounds silly, but worked for me...
and by minimum BSODs I talk about 1 per 2 weeks...

Final finished version downloaded today.
Every setting transferred from RC version flawlessly.
I looked pretty hard and could find no difference.

I guess that they just did minimal changes for the final take, but seems as fast as RC... but compared to IE9, is really faster

 

[indianacarnie]

It seems quick alright, but doesn't score all that well with peacekeeper.

 

[NoelDP]

Windows ME

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

FWIW Win ME wasn't IE 6 (that was XP)
Me provided IE 5.5 and was upgradable to IE 6 SP1.

 

[jimbo45]

Windows ME

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

FWIW Win ME wasn't IE 6 (that was XP)
Me provided IE 5.5 and was upgradable to IE 6 SP1.

Hi there
ever tried WIN/286 -- now that was a real OS !!! and the only sort of internet you could get was via BBS'es and if you were lucky a hit and miss dial up system using a HAYES Modem connecting at 1200 Baud. or even an Acoustic coupler -- anybody remember those --screenshot enc. This device worked at about the speed of thick molasses.

A bit later a TEXT only browser was available -- although I never tried it apparently it worked quite well.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[GEWB]

Hi there
ever tried WIN/286 -- now that was a real OS !!! and the only sort of internet you could get was via BBS'es and if you were lucky a hit and miss dial up system using a HAYES Modem connecting at 1200 Baud.

Flash from the past! That was the first version of Windows I purchased along with a 1200Baud modem! Those were the days - not!

Regards,
GEWB

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

You haven't lived (and died of old age) until you've used a 300 baud modem (mine was on a Commodore C64c).

 

[GEWB]

You haven't lived (and died of old age) until you've used a 300 baud modem (mine was on a Commodore C64c).

Had the Commodore but not the modem - VisiCalc was THE program to have!

Regards,
GEWB

 

[NoelDP]

Anyone remember Multiplan? - or 1-2-3 for DOS??

 

[jimbo45]

Anyone remember Multiplan? - or 1-2-3 for DOS??

Hi there
another interesting one was a program called "The Last One" -- which was an early interpreter based on BASIC -- it made the market by advertising itself as You'd NEVER need to write a program again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_(software)

I remember also text based 1-2-3 on a DOS Novell Lan -- what a pain that was -- and when we finally got a Windows Lan with EXCEL for Windows -- Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.11 -- windows for workgroups) what a relevation we thought that was.

Anybody finding problems with W7 or W8 really have it EASY compared to what we had to do back then.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[NoelDP]

I was running a Netware 2.4 server with Excel on Windows - that was fun

 

[prospero]

Just installed IE10, first impression good, it seems to be faster than previous iterations.

 

[prospero]

Anybody finding problems with W7 or W8 really have it EASY compared to what we had to do back then.
Cheers
jimbo

Those were the days Jimbo - back in the 70s running RPG on an IBM System/32. Ha, ha, ha.

 

[carwiz]

My first job out of school was at an accounting firm with an IBM 360/20 writing in RPG and Assembler. It was all card and paper tape input on a machine with 16KB of memory. The compiler was even in cards. A year later they brought in three disk drives about the size of dishwashers and bumped the memory up to 24KB. Man, we thought we were in heaven. How could we possibly run out of memory or use all that disk space? And ISAM files were magic!

 

[prospero]

If I go right back to the dark ages, the first programming I ever did was on an IBM 6400 accounting machine - one of the first to use transistors (which were on SMS cards and very indiscrete). The memory was 1Kb core storage (remember those little donuts?), and programming was through a patchboard, a bit like an old-fashioned telephone exchange. External storage was on magnetic striped A4 cards.

 

[carwiz]

Yep, we had one of those in school. The boards had an input, calcs and output section. All those character rails raising at all different heights then Ka-Chunk! Printed about one line per second on a simple list. Or about a page a minute on green-bar. Nasty machine. Don't miss it.

 

[Britton30]

IE10 was pushed in Windows Update today, black Tuesday. I hid the update.

 

[Gary]

I used the IE 10 Blocker Tool:

Download Toolkit to Disable Automatic Delivery of Internet Explorer 10 from Official Microsoft Download Center

It will not even permit you to download it.