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| 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. --- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5* Origin: Barktopia BBS Site http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45) SEEN-BY: 633/267 270 @PATH: 379/45 1 396/45 106/2000 633/267 |
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