http://www.pcworld.com/article/161533/internet_explorer_8_what_you_need_to_know.html
IE8 is being released at noon today, but only through manual downloads at Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx No word yet on when it will be released through Microsoft Update.
I'll probably install it sometime soon, just because I like to play with new toys on the computer, but it would have to be an outstanding browser to win me back from Firefox. (And I'm still smarting from the experience of installing IE7 on my computer and then having my scanner software, of all things, poop out. It took me, and everyone else, awhile to figure that one out.)
I downloaded a beta of Microsoft 7, the upcoming operating system, onto the spare computer earlier this year, but never got around to installing it.
I always approach these things with a mixture or trepidation and hopeful anticipation. With Firefox and some other non-Microsoft software, I have been happily surprised. Unfortunately, with many of Microsoft's applications, the results have been less than delightful.
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I don't like change, if something works for me and I understand it to any degree, that's good enough for me :)
Stop it right there, orbs! Stop trying to get my curiosity peaked! I'm waiting for everyone else to stop crying before I do any future updating. My toys don't seem to play nicely with other new toys lately. Besides, I've always been a kid who approaches life with trepidation.
I downloaded it, but haven't installed it. Too much going on right now to be messing around if something goes wrong.
I don't like change either, but some of this stuff changes no matter what, so I try to stay on top of that. I still don't have a cell phone or know how to operate one. I do have a digital camera, but still haven't read the manual. I guess I learn just what I need to get by.
Oh, and I'm still using XP, and probably will for the foreseeable future.
I like your look for spring, kk.
I have heard very good things about Windows 7...even from an employee at the local Apple store who showed it to me running under boot camp on a Mac.
I hear good things about it, too. I hope I can afford it when it's released. And by then I'll need a new computer.
Here's a tip for lower priced software...Tiger Direct will sell you the OEM version of Windows. The catch is you have to do your own tech support. In exchange, you get it for half price.
I got Windows Vista Business free for going to a World Wide Telescope workshop at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Long Beach and now run it under boot camp on my Mac.
My XP is an OEM. I usually buy from NewEgg, but Tiger Direct has great prices, too.
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