Users, Web developers vent over IE7
Microsoft blog about the browser's success draws scores of complaints

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9050979&intsrc=hm_list

Quotes: "Users of Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) turned a blog post by a Microsoft Corp. program manager into a complaint free-for-all that took the company to task for not following through on browser upgrade promises and alienating Web developers.

But it was developers who seemed to bash Microsoft the hardest. "Instead of wasting our time with crazy back-patting uselessness, will Microsoft please just admit defeat and close up development of IE and hand [it] over to people who care about the Web and handle it properly?" said Ryan G. "I have wasted so many hours developing sites to work in this browser that work without further modification in every other browser.

But the most pointed comment came from someone labeled only as dk. "You all continue to underestimate the dramatic spillover effect this poor developer experience has had and will continue to have on your other products and services. Let me drive this point home. I am a front-end programmer and a co-founder of a start-up. I can tell you categorically that my team won't download and play with Silverlight ... won't build a Live widget ... won't consider any Microsoft search or ad products in the future."

About "raining release candidates" it's (at this Ms stage) very similar that you "raining posts" ( you; burying some bad article, Ms trying of bury-or "fix"- a lot of rubbish software.)
Problem: Generally the haste is not good adviser.

Chips,

I won't download or play or use one of your applets.

I like IE , it improves over the time .

Look at Mozilla , it supposed to be IE Killer , but now it seems that the Mozilla ladens with bugs

http://www.linuxtoday.com/security/2007091701726SCDT

Not really Microsoft is bad guy and Open-source is savior

whats the problem with windows internet explorer 8?
whats wrong with the name?
i dont understand
add me on windows live messenger: puppet1991@hotmail.com; Joe did! =D

IE is the boxcar that jumped the tracks in the Windows security trainwreck. It's the best and fastest way to get a virus infection. Use it to make sure you make the malware writers happy.

Putting a band-aid on this cancer won't fix it. Micro$oft should make a new browser from scratch. But then they should also make the entire OS from scratch too.

For Marty :

http://www.news.com/Critics-rap-Microsoft-safety-study-of-IE,-Firefox/2100-1002_3-6221340.html

Critics rap Microsoft safety study of IE, Firefox

I was expecting more from Microsoft and IE7. It's just an avarage browser that took too long to complete. From what i know ie6 was based on the ancient mosaic engine and could not been updated anymore... so i thought ie7 will be different.
I hope they will do better with ie8.
Some of the MS products are great and realiable, others are rubish... that's the risk when the teams grow too much.
something i don't get however is these new live services. there are so many sites and minisites and download sites, that i'm feeling lost.
Took me 30min to find the live maps demo page...

Joe;

Lately you've been writing some good articles and raising the heckles on a few fanboys out there. Most notably the 10 things wrong about vista was an excellent piece.

Yes, I have to agree, what's wrong with IE 8.0 in a name? Sounds simple enough to me.

Here is my thoughts on the IE 8.0 development and what Microsoft plans to do -- Call it a guess...

1.) MS will, over time, promise certain features in the new browser, the strong points will be it is more secure, tighter controls in privacy, phishing scams, and malware attacks. This is nothing really new (as far as they say, after all, the've been saying this every since IE 5.5).

2.) IE 8.0 will no doubt carry the latest in the MS plug-ins for IE 7.0 natively but we will all have to, as usual, install the Java Engines, Adobe Acrobat, and flash modules since this is all third party apps -- Again nothing new for us.

3.) Microsoft will no doubt promise other features (could be, and more likely than not, be nothing more than vaporware) such as some sort of Web 2.0 gimmick, slight of hand or so forth that will not pan out and lead to item 4.

4.) IE 8.0 will be late regardless and the MS excuse for the missing features (in item 3) will be axed do to marketing pressures and whatever.

5.) When IE 8.0 is finally released, it will only be good for Vista and Windows 7. We've seen this this sort of tactic many times over again with this and other MS products.

6.) Microsoft doesn't give a good G*dd*mn about web accessabilities and other W3D policies since time began, why the hell start now?

To Maddog
They did write the OS from scratch. It's called Windows Vista.

Our company is still on IE 6 and Mozilla. Personally i think IE 6 is more stable compared with IE7. But more people is using Mozilla now.

Joe;

Lately you've been writing some good articles and raising the heckles on a few fanboys out there. Most notably the 10 things wrong about vista was an excellent piece.

Yes, I have to agree, what's wrong with IE 8.0 in a name? Sounds simple enough to me.

Here is my thoughts on the IE 8.0 development and what Microsoft plans to do -- Call it a guess...

1.) MS will, over time, promise certain features in the new browser, the strong points will be it is more secure, tighter controls in privacy, phishing scams, and malware attacks. This is nothing really new (as far as they say, after all, the've been saying this every since IE 5.5).

Yes ...

whats the problem with windows internet explorer 8?
whats wrong with the name?
i dont understand