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* Posts by muuwii

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Microsoft breaks IE8 interoperability promise

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@andy

Andy writes: "it's predominantly to get around the fact developers can't have both IE7 and IE8 beta 2 installed on the same machine"

Well, they could if MS would let them, it's an artificial limitation.

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@Christopher Emerson

Chris,

IE8 is changing exactly **because** Hakon and others have put so much pressure on MS. Without Acid2, IE8's support for standards would have been much worse...

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@NetAvenger

NetAvenger writes: "We are attaching a copy of this article with a memo to our corporate clients and recommending policies to remove Opera from all systems."

Yeah, right. I challenge you to publish your memo, letterhead and all.

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Intranet lock-in

Marc wrote: "If IE is the standard in an organisations IT environment, it makes sense that the latest version doesn't go breaking the Intranet out of the box."

I'm sick of the "Microsoft has screwed us in the past so we should thank them for contiuing to so so"-attitude by some. Hey, we need competition in this market! Not continued lock-in from a monopolist who's doing a classic "divide-and-conquer" maneuver in the dark.

Marc: you only have your chains to lose!

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Thanks for pointing this out

Thanks for pointing out this hard-to-find, but crucial change in IE. I'm among those who were relieved when Microsoft made their promise, and it's disappointing -- if not highly surprising -- that they break their promise. It seems that Micorosoft is only listening to some select customers who say what they want to hear. The rest of us are never asked. I make intranet pages and was looking forward to being able use all the web standards. I wish Opera or any other standards-compliant browser were used instead, but most companies are stuck in the IE tar pit.

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