{"id":192,"date":"2006-12-03T04:03:04","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T10:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/archives\/192"},"modified":"2006-12-03T04:06:56","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T10:06:56","slug":"ie7-why-you-shouldnt-install-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"IE7 Why you shouldn’t install it."},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. It breaks a LOT of programs that rely on ie6.<\/li>\n
  2. It doesn’t work<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I spent quite a few hours trying to fix my parents computer tonight …
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    \nIt was a frustrating experience. My mom couldn’t get a program to work that was a daily part of her life, and on top of that IE 7 wouldn’t surf *anywhere* not google, not windows update, not my site, shoot I couldn’t even get the dang thing to connect to my router.<\/p>\n

    Needless to say Firefox was connecting just fine.<\/p>\n

    I don’t know why IE7 is such an improvement. They moved the buttons around so even someone who was used to running a browser had to look for the “stop” button.<\/p>\n

    I wasn’t impressed. If this is the best “commercial software” has to offer…<\/p>\n

    It regenerated my hating of M$, and all commercial software. I rebooted that dang thing more times in 1 night than reboot linux in a month.<\/p>\n

    Why is it that every freaking piece of hardware you buy wants to install something that runs in the background all the time? Or some sort of custom update software?<\/p>\n

    Maybe it’s just me, but this seems like a waste of resources.<\/p>\n

    Maybe windows should write a good update manager like Adept .. oh wait that’s right commercial software doesn’t like to share. “It’s my code.”<\/p>\n

    I wasn’t impressed with IE7 mostly because it broke a lot of applications that relied on various ie6 components. So for now I recommend not running it. Something like that should be backwards compatible for a year or so.<\/p>\n

    There were tons of programs running in the background when it started up, running their little commercial “phone home” programs. Sucking up the CPU.<\/p>\n

    The more I use linux, the more I realize the people who design programs for it must really think about what they are doing.<\/p>\n

    It’s easy enough to enable\/disable things at start up. Shoot you don’t even need to run a gui if you don’t want to. This is a bonus in my opinion.<\/p>\n

    I don’t know … just seems like corporate america is more more interested in spying on you than actually designing quality software.<\/p>\n

    My biggest gripe with linux is I can’t monitor my cpu temp. — sensord doesn’t support my computer yet.<\/p>\n

    Part of me wishes that corporate america would take a vested interest in developing for linux. The other part of me thinks … naaa a kodak driver would expect to run as root, phone home, and be general pain. Besides I have an SD card, and an SD card drive … so no need to hook up the camera.<\/p>\n

    Oh well enough ranting.<\/p>\n

    In the end I uninstalled IE7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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