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• Good looking search engine. I gave it a week test, using it instead of Google and the results were just as good. I especially like the way they present the data with video being the best example of that. I love how they just play if you are mousing over them. A simple feature that should have been delivered long ago by Google and/or YouTube.
  
  I am not sure if it will replace my Google use, but we shall see. The main thing keeping me locked to google is their very useful toolbar. If Bing releases something similar, with bookmarks, search, feature buttons and so on, I will surely move from Google. I'm a power user, so I know what combinations give me exactly what I am looking for.
  
  The search results are always similar, so to me presentation of data is the most important thing. In reply to: "Microsoft Bing: Much better than expected"

  June 8, 2009

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• I am liking the product previews so far. We shall see how it truly works when it comes out. 2 big questions that would need to be answered on the product are:
  
  1. How many players at a time can the camera support?
  
  2. If it can support more than 1 person at a time, what is the camera's viewer coverage? The demos are in big-o spaces, so how would it work in closer spaces. I have a 61 inch tv and it just works with the Wii because of the motion scensors. The Natal product may require more space than most people have.
  
  It's a promicing project that has gotten my attention, but we shall see how it ends up. In reply to: "Microsoft's Project Natal: What does it mean for game industry?"

  June 2, 2009

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• I've never had a problem with IE
  I guess it all depends on the person that is using IE. I've never had a problem with IE. Sure like all other applications, it takes a dump every now and then. I don't accept installations of controls from sites I don't know of. So I haven't had any spyware on my machine since I removed Kazaa.
  
  As for complaining about tabbing, no one is complaining other than the people who don?t see it on IE. I could care less about tabbing. The problem is that people tout that feature as the holly grail when it?s not. I just don't get what the big fuss is about. Years ago, there was a skin from Neoplanet that allowed tabs to be used in IE, not that many people cared then.
  
  I'll admit, IE doesn't have some of the latest little cutesy features that CSS provides, but who cares? LOL So I don't get to see transparent PNG, or make one of my cells transparent.
  
  As for speed. If FireFox does by some chance render pages faster, what is the speed difference? A few milliseconds? Is your time really that valuable that you can't spend a few extra milliseconds to view a page? Also, what are the numbers that state FireFox and others render faster than IE? Second, who generated those numbers? And third, who cares? :)
  
  Anyways, if you want to claim that IE is the dinosaur, take some time to really review the feature list and tell me who needs to catch up to who.
  
  You keep your featureless kiddy browser and I will keep my real world feature full browser. :)

  October 1, 2004

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• I agree, and there are a lot more reasons I would not make the move
  I'll start off by stating that I like IE a lot more than all the other browsers. IE hasn't had a major update in 3 years, but still seems to be ahead in many respects other than lil minor trinkets that the other browsers have.
  
  Tabbed Browsing - I know a lot of people are fans of this method of browsing, but there is another half of the world that just hates it (including myself). Tabbed browsing is one of the things preventing me from using FireFox, and so on. They don't provide a quick way of disabling the tabs all completely.
  
  Multi Process Running - Most of the "IE Competitors" don't provide ways to run new browser instances in seperate processes. So if a site causes one of the browser windows to fail, they all die making you lose all the pages and work you were on.
  
  No custom toolbars - IE competitors don't provide a standard to developing custom toolbars. I can't live without my Google toobar, and I am not simply talking about the capability of search box being there. I would miss my highlight, up level navigation, page info and site search. Most web companies have killer toolbars for using their site. What is opera's solution? Firefox? etc.
  
  Integration with Office tools? - IE offers great integration capabilities with MS Office, and offers APIs for integration which gives access to the same integration to other office tool companies, which for some reason most don't use. Just about every web related software can be integrated into IE, from Dreamweaver to your Digital Camera's software. FireFox doesn't have any real level of support.
  
  The list of things that are missing in these new browsers, which are supported on the OLD TIMER IE, is just too big to mention here. SO when people complain about not having tab browsing, or google search as their default search engine, I just laugh.
  
  IE is not going anywhere. No new browser will even touch a significant amount of the capabilities that IE offers. Even if it takes another 3 years, IE will still remain on top in terms of feature lists and so on.
  
  Take care...

  September 30, 2004

  1 reply

• Looks like tab browsing is the only thing IE doesn't have
  I'll start off by stating that I like IE a lot more than all the other browsers. IE hasn't had a major update in 3 years, but still seems to be ahead in many respects other than lil minor trinkets that the other browsers have.
  
  Tabbed Browsing - I know a lot of people are fans of this method of browsing, but there is another half of the world that just hates it (including myself). Tabbed browsing is one of the things preventing me from using FireFox, and so on. They don't provide a quick way of disabling the tabs all completely.
  
  Multi Process Running - Most of the "IE Competitors" don't provide ways to run new browser instances in seperate processes. So if a site causes one of the browser windows to fail, they all die making you lose all the pages and work you were on.
  
  No custom toolbars - IE competitors don't provide a standard to developing custom toolbars. I can't live without my Google toobar, and I am not simply talking about the capability of search box being there. I would miss my highlight, up level navigation, page info and site search. Most web companies have killer toolbars for using their site. What is opera's solution? Firefox? etc.
  
  Integration with Office tools? - IE offers great integration capabilities with MS Office, and offers APIs for integration which gives access to the same integration to other office tool companies, which for some reason most don't use. Just about every web related software can be integrated into IE, from Dreamweaver to your Digital Camera's software. FireFox doesn't have any real level of support.
  
  The list of things that are missing in these new browsers, which are supported on the OLD TIMER IE, is just too big to mention here. SO when people complain about not having tab browsing, or google search as their default search engine, I just laugh.
  
  IE is not going anywhere. No new browser will even touch a significant amount of the capabilities that IE offers. Even if it takes another 3 years, IE will still remain on top in terms of feature lists and so on.
  
  Take care...

  September 30, 2004

  4 replies

• Looks like tab browsing is the only thing IE doesn't have
  I'll start off by stating that I like IE a lot more than all the other browsers. IE hasn't had a major update in 3 years, but still seems to be ahead in many respects other than lil minor trinkets that the other browsers have.
  
  Tabbed Browsing - I know a lot of people are fans of this method of browsing, but there is another half of the world that just hates it (including myself). Tabbed browsing is one of the things preventing me from using FireFox, and so on. They don't provide a quick way of disabling the tabs all completely.
  
  Multi Process Running - Most of the "IE Competitors" don't provide ways to run new browser instances in seperate processes. So if a site causes one of the browser windows to fail, they all die making you lose all the pages and work you were on.
  
  No custom toolbars - IE competitors don't provide a standard to developing custom toolbars. I can't live without my Google toobar, and I am not simply talking about the capability of search box being there. I would miss my highlight, up level navigation, page info and site search. Most web companies have killer toolbars for using their site. What is opera's solution? Firefox? etc.
  
  Integration with Office tools? - IE offers great integration capabilities with MS Office, and offers APIs for integration which gives access to the same integration to other office tool companies, which for some reason most don't use. Just about every web related software can be integrated into IE, from Dreamweaver to your Digital Camera's software. FireFox doesn't have any real level of support.
  
  The list of things that are missing in these new browsers, which are supported on the OLD TIMER IE, is just too big to mention here. SO when people complain about not having tab browsing, or google search as their default search engine, I just laugh.
  
  IE is not going anywhere. No new browser will even touch a significant amount of the capabilities that IE offers. Even if it takes another 3 years, IE will still remain on top in terms of feature lists and so on.
  
  Take care...

  September 30, 2004

  4 replies