Comments on: IE7 will require Windows XP

By: Phillip

Phillip — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 10:02:33 +0000

The way I read it on the MS site, you’ll need XP with SP2 installed to run IE7. In view of all the problems SP2 has caused and people having to remove it or simply not install it in the first place, I can well see many more XP users turning to Opera or Firefox to keep up to date with the latest features.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:04:28 +0000

"Guess someone'll offer a service that provides screenshots of one's works in various browsers."

Yep. http://browsercam.com

By: Xial

Xial — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:51:07 +0000

Well, it's pretty sad that IE7 will be an XP-only thing.

From the standpoint of a hobbyist when it comes to HTML, XHTML, and CSS, this isn't all that fair to us who can't, won't, or don't use WinXP.

I don't want to plop down USD$200+ for XP Pro (sorry, but I dislike 'home' editions), plus the time it takes to reinstall all of my old software, plus the time it takes me to reconfigure said software to get it working the way I had it... just to get my hands on a new browser.

I'm content with my copy of Win2000 SP4, and don't want to change unless security issues force my hands.

I'll stick to Firefox, consider trying Opera again and see if the interface isn't so "meh", and go from there. Guess someone'll offer a service that provides screenshots of one's works in various browsers. :P

By: Taragon

Taragon — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 23:29:13 +0000

I love the anti-MS paranoia here. So IE7 only runs on XP - big deal. What do you want them to do. Develop for a 10 year old OS? Cripple their new products to ensure they work with old machines and obsolete OSs?

{{TjL writes: Opera and Firefox both have no problem running on older versions of Windows. The only reason why Internet Explorer does not is that they have, stupidly, integrated it into the OS, which causes security problem even if you do not use Internet Explorer. There's no reason why a browser can't work even on Windows 95, as Opera does. No paranoia, just astonished that so many people are willing to drink the Kool-aid.}}

By: GeeZuS

GeeZuS — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 05:52:46 +0000

Everyone should uninstall IE, it took me about half a day, but I did it.

By: kirin

kirin — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 21:46:14 +0000

I don't where this hate for IE came from. I think it's quite good to access Windows Update and Office Update. And some people say it even has some features that allow to access the Internet, although in a basic way...

So I don't think we should talk about this in here. This is a site about browsers, like Opera, Firefox or Safari, not Windows Management Utilities.

By: Wolfgang

Wolfgang — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:05:03 +0000

It’s obvious that MS wants us to use XP. And they need to trick us into using XP by restricting Software for XP-usage. IE7 is not the only piece of Software, there’s this Movie Maker (which i wouldn’t use anyway, there’s VirtualDub, hehe) and some more examples. I think there’s even a DirectShow Filter available only in WinXP.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 20:01:52 +0000

Just my opinion, but I don’t care what version of OS or IE MS releases. Like many, I’m through with them. No need to explain to this group, you know why people come to this conclusion. When I needed to replace the old ME box I searched for a PC with no OS installed. With no time to build my own, I bought a Dell server, installed Yoper Linux and added Opera. Opera works well with this distro. I’m now learning how to use Linux with all the time I’m saving not having to daily update a half dozen programs to keep windows safe. Like I said, just my opinion…

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 11:27:57 +0000

Microsoft can shove it, if it wern't for the fact that most user software is made for win32, I wouldn't have anything to do with microsoft.

Recently and as always I have been play'n with alternate shells for MS OS and nothing has quite been right. However I did play with Opera6 once and had it running as my shell. It was very intersting to see a marked improvement in my systems overall performance and stability. Unfortunatly I'm not that good at messin around with software and making major mods.

Point is...I really hope to see Opera creat a nice lite weight shell to replace the exsisting MSwindows shell and add emulation to win98 as to support products that will not install in win98 (that require winXP). Microsoft seems to be providing fanancial support to software writers and producers to only support winXP. I have noticed in the past few months that more and more software states that it cannot be installed on my OS, of caurse I always mannage to trick it into installing one way or another with positive results and find there is absolutly no reason why it can't be installed on win9x systems.... I don't know about everyone else but this kinda bull is ticking me off.

My request is to Opera software to work towards a shell replacement for windows and maybe an operating system of their own someday (win32 compatable).

By: Guti

Guti — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 10:39:26 +0000

It does not seem to matter to me.

Having an excelent comercial browser such as Opera, and a great ones based on Gecko, a new version of IE will only make sense to newies.