Nice tabs pet! Shame about the Vista! (Microsoft Internet Explorer 8)

Member Name: thedevilinme

Product:	Microsoft Internet Explorer 8
Date:	25/10/09 (67 review reads)
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Advantages: Way better than 7

Disadvantages: I.E 9 on the way!

When tapping in 'Obama' on Microsoft spellcheckers you always offers you 'Osama' , ironic indeed, and for some white supremacists enough to claim the two are in fact one. Microsoft likes to play little jokes like that and I believe you can get a wingbat for the twin towers being hit by a plane if you tap in a certain sequence on Word 97, software code written five years before September 1. Q Twilight Zone music! Internet Explorer 8, on the other hand, is no joke, their best gateway browser yet from the trillionaire.

Microsoft, of course, introduced the windows operating system to revolutionize home and business computing, although yours truly took his time to catch up. Even as late as last year I was still on Windows 98 and Internet Explorer 5.1! When you're on broadband that set up wont run most html or java webpage's proper as lots of applications will be whizzing away at the same time and so you browsing speeds will collapse. Mine collapsed big time! THUD! You have to have at least Windows XP and Internet Explorer 7 if you want the full value from stuff like videos and sound files on webpage's. I.E 8 is brilliant that way although I have never used the alternates like Firefox or Apple to compare.

Sadly btbroadband have been 'throttling' many people's services, including mine, and so browsers don't work correctly at the speeds we are getting. I am 2000 meters from the BT exchange so don't get much more than 1MB speed normally but when BT throttle we don't get the required 500k to run most webpage applets, meaning the pages don't fully load and stuff like youtube wont run. Throttling is responsible for most slow internet services and it's when the provider deliberately slows down your connection to stop you uploading lots of p2p (point-to-point) video and music files. You may not be particularly prolific in that area like we aren't but with BT if you are in the top 10% of users on your packet cluster (users assigned to your copper wire cables in the area) you get capped and its very aggravating. The only thing more annoying when you have paid twenty quid a month for their crappy service for only 4 of those 20 GBs promised is the bloody hassle of BT customer service in India.

After the consumers mass rejection of the Windows Vista operating system (so Microsoft says), Bill Gates is launching Windows 7 this week (businesses yet again having to upgrade to make Gates billions more dollars), and I believe it only runs with Explorer 8, the default I.E browser. You need this spec to run I.E 8.

* 233 MHz processor
* Super VGA (800 x 600) monitor with 256 colors.
* Mouse or compatible pointing device.
* RAM: 64 MB for 32-bit Windows XP/Server 2003, 128 MB for 64-bit Windows XP/Server 2003, and 512 MB for Windows Vista/Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit)
The coolest thing about the internet (apart from free porn!) is you can pretty much download any software you need for free. The theory on Microsoft is that if you have downloaded their free products then the ones you have to buy from other companies will not always run on windows. Microsoft have 90% of the market and that's hasn't changed much of late. I picked up I.E 8 purely by pressing the upgrade button on my MSN toolbar. I presume the software was teleported in from Microsoft upgrade because my operating system isn't copied or stolen and so has a licence. I hope I didn't steel it.

-New Features-

I do like the page recovery facility for when you crash out and it regenerates that page there and then. It also gives you the 'option' to return to that page if it is a naughty one.

The phishing feature is new and it will block webpage's that are a known high risk for this activity. 'InPrivate' filtering is also new and has been described as the 'porn filter' by technophobes, a facility to scrub previous websites you have visited from your browsers history automatically. Although some people can be very pious over porn browsing pretty much everyone does it at some point. If you visit a site that wants to download spy or malware this facility will hopefully stop that happening alongside your antivirus and firewall. 90% of all computers viruses and crashes are porn related.

The tabs facility is fun too where you have the option to run another web page of choice as part of your original page instead of donking on the I.E icon again. These two regenerate like Doctor Who is they crash out. Its also easier to drag your favourite webpage's on to the tool bar for quicker access, keeping them logged in too after you have deleted the previous page of that site. There's also a built in pop up blocker.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_8

Summary: Porn free browsing!

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