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Subject: Re: Will the real GUI8.iup stand up please?

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 16:04:24 02/16/05

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On February 16, 2005 at 18:49:56, William Penn wrote:

>On February 16, 2005 at 18:42:35, Peter Skinner wrote:
>
>>On February 16, 2005 at 18:32:44, F. Huber wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks Peter,
>>>
>>>then I don´t need to worry about it with my Win98 -
>>>here I´m preventing my data from execution by _myself_! ;-)
>>>
>>>Franz.
>>
>>Want to know the scariest thing I read all week?
>>
>>"Microsoft to Release Internet Explorer 7.0
>>
>>    Microsoft Corporation will release a new version of Internet Explorer, the
>>world's most popular Internet browsing software, with new, built-in security
>>features, Chairman Bill Gates said on Tuesday.
>>
>>    In a speech at a major security conference here, Gates said Internet
>>Explorer 7.0, with new anti-spyware features, will be released for preliminary
>>testing this summer.
>>
>>    The move comes three years after Microsoft, the world's biggest software
>>company, launched a major initiative to improve the reliability and security of
>>its software, which runs on about 90 percent of all personal computers.
>>
>>Full article:
>>
>>http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=502910
>>
>>My only hope is they don't remove the ActiveX controls, or any of the bugs. I
>>would sincerely miss them.
>>
>>And I will also be extremely angered if they include tabbed browsing. Why join
>>the rest of the world in a happy web surfing environment?
>>
>>Stay the course Microsoft!! Don't be tricked into providing better software!
>>
>>Peter
>
>I suspect that you won't be disappointed... :)
>WP

Honestly, when I read it I first cringed, then I cried, then I just broke down
and wept for 3 hours.

Just thinking of all the computer user going to be duped in the coming months.

Also imagine the resources going to be needed to run such a beast.

Peter



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