It’s one thing when a product works like it’s supposed to and a majority of users prefer it; it’s quite another thing when products turn off their users because they don’t work right (IE 11) or aren’t want users want (Windows 8.1).
While Microsoft tries to goad Google into a childish fight with it’s ridiculous “Scoogled” anti-Google campaign, Google does the right thing and ignores Microsoft. Google’s products work, and Google’s users are generally happy with its products. Instead of worrying about what Microsoft is doing, Google is busy improving its products, listening to what consumers want, and making products that just plain work the way they should.
Steve Jobs used used to use an altered quote of T.S. Eliot “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal…”: Jobs used to say…”good artists copy; great artists steal”. Maybe Microsoft should start copying Google instead of bashing them – then perhaps they’d give consumers not only products they want, but products that work.
A few weeks ago, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 11, claiming it was “30% faster”. They didn’t say what it was faster than, but it’s provably not faster than Chrome. Now it comes to light that IE 11 doesn’t even work correctly for a lot of users as illustrated by this article from Infoworld:
IE11 leaves Flash media hanging on YouTube, more major sites
If you’re having problems getting Flash sites to display properly in Internet Explorer 11 — whether you’re running Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 — you aren’t alone. The support forums are clogged with complaints, citing different symptoms, from sites (including YouTube) that don’t render properly and/or freeze completely to BSODs to repeated, bogus exhortations to download the latest Flash player. Microsoft hasn’t come up with an explanation, much less a fix. The IE patch delivered on Black Tuesday earlier this month was supposed to help, but it doesn’t. The only solution that seems to work: Use Firefox or Chrome.
It was bound to happen, Microsoft decided to rest on it’s laurels, and this is the result. I hear that Microsoft is having a great deal of trouble recruiting top notch programmers …..seems that they have become a pariah. The latest buffoonery with updates can attest to that, somebody is asleep at the wheel. Not only can they not write code, they have no one to see if it actually works, Somehow Billy Boys grin isn’t all that wide now….ahh well just my 2 cents adjusted for inflation, your mileage may vary.
Mike
I.E. keeps getting worse. I like I.E., at least I liked versions 7-9 and still use 9 in spite of constant reminders that I’m using an outdated browser. I dumped 10 and not willing to try 11. I’m going off Microsoft and that’s like losing a parent, the constant in my computer life that has always been there for me. Well not any more apparently.
Barb.
I only use Google Chrome. I have Windows 7, IE 9, but when I tried to upgrade to IE 10, all my desktop icons vanished, so I decided to not install IE 10 or the follow-up, IE 11, not that I use IE anyway. But since I had IE already, I have thought it is a better idea to keep it upgraded, as a matter of principle, and from a safety point, but trying to install IE 10 cured me of that really fast! I never have a problem with Google, and it works very well for me.
I simply cannot agree with the sentiments expressed by some about IE 11, let alone Windows 8.1.
Personally I am more than satisfied with the new version of Internet Explorer and even more so with the latest operating system Windows 8.1. I have used all the previous versions of both Windows and Internet Explorer.
No way would I want to return to them. Perhaps it may be a learning curve for some at first, but does that not apply to many of the new electronic devices now being released on the market?
Right on!
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@ Dianne: Just what is the problem with the spelling? Could it be your comprehension of the English language?
Apologies accepted
@ Dianne: That was very rude.
If it were not for Firefox back then and Chrome now you would be very-very lucky to be at IE 11. I doubt the team at Microsoft, or who ever works on that project would have even raised their head’s off their desk …smiles. I’m really not being funny here. You think back how much improvement Microsoft’s IE was getting before Firefox came along back then. Then later Chrome came along. Those two coming along was the best thing to happen to Microsoft IE and the people that used it. It woke that team up…some what! I believe in competition. I think it is healthy for all of us. To do this though you have to have something people want, or make them think it. If you want to keep people coming back, then you have to keep coming up with ideas. Why should I stay with you! What makes you any different than the rest! Pointing fingers don’t work. At least not for me. I use all three of them for certain things…..
I am using Windows 7 with IE 11 and can no longer do my online banking. Bank said my browser was at fault. I have had no other problems, but am thinking of going back to IE10;
How can I uninstall IE 11 ??
See our post on this…