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Geil ... #Microsoft und das Thema #Browser kann und will einfach nicht zur Ruhe kommen ... also noch nie seit #MSIE :D https://winfuture.de/news,158503.html #security

@nina_kali_nina Yes, I quite admired its remarkably consistent UI, something Microsoft rarely gets right. (But not for long though, and Internet Explorer 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 iterated so quickly — that version 4.0 ruined the desktop with Active Desktop where “everything is a link now” and every single desktop icon had underlined text, meaning you could click it now with a single click instead of that oh-so-troublesome double-click … not that it stopped everyone over 40 that I saw double-clicking it anyway, causing all sorts of double-open issues)

/endrant … ooh that went on a wild tangent there, sorry. Ahem let me hashtag that with #MSIE #InternetExplorer

I missed the simple minimalism of the File Explorer windowing before Windows 95B and Windows 98 and 98SE, though it was a bit more refined in ME and Windows 2000, both of which I have a soft spot for

But mostly I love the very original Win95 for its empty start bar. No little notch dirtying it up, with a “toolbar” grab handle letting you rearrange and reconfigure like a browser toolbar (except not very configurable, not to mention removing the notch).

The thing I missed the most was the cute animation at startup that slid in to say “Click Here to Begin” https://youtu.be/4UxwAlqCCmk basically welcoming any refugees from Windows 3.x.

(All that Windows XP ever told you on first startup was “Welcome! Your computer has issues. You need to fix it with some updates, or maybe some antivirus. Have you thought about opening your bloatware?” Welcome to the 21st century, suckers)

Okay that’s way too much ranting

All the more ironic that I’m ranting about this because for my daily driver, around 6 months after I installed Windows 95, I got my first Mac. Jumped straight on the PowerPC bandwagon with a G2. Underpowered but had soft power on/off and video capture, plus a bundled answering machine app for the internal dialup modem. My first macOS was 7.5.1 and I had to put up with all the shenanigans of 7.5.3r2 until Steve Jobs made his influence felt in MacOS 7.6.

It wasn't that long ago that IE support seemed like an eternal struggle, one that would always be a pain for web developers. Then all of a sudden, I realise I haven't thought about IE for *years*. It's just gone. We did it, everyone!

#MSIE #InternetExplorer #IE

Here's a #microsoft #windows #msie #internetExplorer question. I remember that at one point, MSIE was making its own links on web pages, green by default and not blue. Web people didn't like this and MSFT eventually removed the feature.

Does anyone have any records of this? All I can find are q&a threads about malware and browser extensions doing the same thing, but wasn't it a real Microsoft feature for a while?

(Or maybe this feature is the web version of that Sinbad movie that never was?)

Today you might laugh at the notion of paying for a web browser (or any other software, you freeloader 😒). But this was part of #Netscape’s business model at first. #Microsoft killed them later by bundling #InternetExplorer with their market-leading #Windows operating system.

#MSIE wasn’t even Microsoft code at first; it was just a badge-engineered licensed version of Spyglass Mosaic. Spyglass was created to commercialize #NCSA Mosaic, the first popular graphical web browser.

Das Ende des Internet Explorers ist da – wirklich | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Nun-ist-er-wirklich-tot-Das-Ende-des-Internet-Explorers-7496189.html #Microsoft #InternetExplorer #MSIE #RIP

Bye-bye, #MSIE:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/internet-explorer-11-desktop-app-retirement-faq/ba-p/2366549
Good riddance.

It is very satisfying to finally push the commit titled "Remove Microsoft Internet Explorer workarounds" to production.

#Microsoft #MSIE #EmbraceExtendExtinguish

@aluhrs Thanks for pointing to this. After years (decades!) of being critical of #MSIE, it's interesting that these days I find myself turning to MS Edge before opening up Chrome for testing. Their dev team is doing some good work.

(Though I still stubbornly stick to Firefox as my daily browser 🙄 )

До сих пор я считал Японию одной из нескольких наиболее технологически развитых стран. А вот нет!
https://xakep.ru/2022/06/17/ie-rip/

#Япония #японцы #Microsoft #MSIE #Edge #браузер #броузер #Windows #MSWindows

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