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to: Mike N.
from: Jeff Shultz
date: 2004-09-23 20:19:14
subject: Re: MS to secure IE for XP only

From: Jeff Shultz 

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:33:35 -0400, Mike N. wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:54:06 -0400, Mike '/m'  wrote:
>
>>This doesn't surpise me.  Microsoft wants to push users to XP, even
>>though they may not want to make the move.
>
>   The ironic thing is that we used to flog Netscape over IE in the old
> days,  all the way to IE5.x.  Some customers have retained that bias for
> Netscape.   With this news, we return to the same mode; for all OS except
> XP, we firmly recommend Opera or Firefox.

I switched a customer to Firefox PR1 today - IE would no longer let him get
into login sites like Paypal or some of the AOL stuff. I figure it was
something with cookies, but with the settings on both dead default and
"allow anything cookie-like from this domain," it still didn't
work.

Firefox just moved in and took over.

More importantly - it worked.

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