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posted by LaminatorX on Monday August 18 2014, @09:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-your-father's-Oldsmobile dept.

For the last few years, Microsoft has tried to separate the modern version of Internet Explorer from its legacy: a relatively slow, insecure browser saddled with proprietary features. Now Mark Hachman reports at PC World that as recently as a few weeks ago, members of the Internet Explorer development team debated renaming the browser, presumably in an effort to eliminate any distaste from the software's earliest days. According to one member of the Explorer Develop Group during an AMA on Reddit: "It's been suggested internally; I remember a particularly long email thread where numerous people were passionately debating it. Plenty of ideas get kicked around about how we can separate ourselves from negative perceptions that no longer reflect our product today," wrote Jonathon Sampson. "The discussion I recall seeing was a very recent one (just a few weeks ago). Who knows what the future holds :)"

 
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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday August 18 2014, @10:06PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Monday August 18 2014, @10:06PM (#82783) Journal

    Internet Explorer for exploits will always be tainted as long as Microsoft is making the decisions. It's fucked if you so will.

    Only if they divorce the mother company, fire any staff that got to much indoctrination and does a heavy refactoring of the code. Will they have any serious shoot at gaining any trust. Otoh, any US corporation currently will have an issue of being trustworthy due to the letter-from-the-men-in-black risks posed.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 18 2014, @11:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 18 2014, @11:41PM (#82826)

    They renamed "Patch Tuesday" and held the first "Update Tuesday" last week. Look how well that worked out for them.

    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday August 19 2014, @01:15AM

      by kaszz (4211) on Tuesday August 19 2014, @01:15AM (#82858) Journal

      They better update the name to "Wrecking Tuesday" ;)

      (also known as wreckday - BYOD to get any useful work done day..)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 19 2014, @01:25AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 19 2014, @01:25AM (#82862)

    I've seen that there are ways to run some versions e.g. under WINE.
    Are any of those currently supported versions of IE?

    I know that the Windoze Registry only allows 1 version to be installed at a time under Windoze.
    Does anyone run IE without a M$ OS?
    Are any web developers using that to check the viewability of W3C-compliant code with the least-compliant browser?

    -- gewg_