{"id":971,"date":"2011-03-14T23:09:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T06:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/?p=971"},"modified":"2011-03-14T23:09:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T06:09:51","slug":"internet-explorer-9-microsoft-still-doesnt-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/14\/internet-explorer-9-microsoft-still-doesnt-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Explorer 9 &#8211; Microsoft STILL doesn&#8217;t get it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a phone pic of my computer 3 minutes into the process of installing Internet Explorer 9:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IE9-Install.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-972\" title=\"IE9-Install\" src=\"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IE9-Install-300x190.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IE9-Install-300x190.png 300w, http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IE9-Install.png 727w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why a phone pic? Because it had to completely <em>shut down<\/em> <strong>everything else,<\/strong> including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Antivirus<\/li>\n<li>Firefox<\/li>\n<li>Media Monkey<\/li>\n<li>All the widgets<\/li>\n<li>Logitech software<\/li>\n<li>and <em>Windows Explorer<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So why it took 6 whole minutes when it wasn&#8217;t fighting anything else for my processors or 6GB of RAM, I have no effing idea&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So no, it didn&#8217;t actually require a reboot, but it did completely take over my computer for 6 solid minutes while it downloaded and installed the new package. So yay, no reboot, but WTF?!? Why are you <em><strong>STILL<\/strong><\/em> making the browser such an integral part of the operating system?<\/p>\n<p>Chrome, Firefox and Opera all run quite happily without being so integrated. What the hell do you <em>do<\/em> that needs to be so wrapped up in the whole system <em>other<\/em> than allow a canny hacker access to core OS functionality through one of the inevitable security holes you provide with each release? Hmm?<\/p>\n<p>Okay, enough of that, time to run it through some tests. So, load up my main work website, go to the toughest and slowest page it has and&#8230; huh. Right. IE9! Does so much more!! Look at all the pretty HTML5 it can do!!!<\/p>\n<p>But apparently it doesn&#8217;t do Ajax, which means we can&#8217;t use it at work, which means it is utterly useless. Go Team Go.<\/p>\n<p>So, right here is where I plug <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chromeplus.org\/\">ChromePlus<\/a>, a mashup that comes pre-loaded with IE-Tab right in the download. All the speed and security of Chrome AND the ability to run IE-required pages.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, IE9 looks to be just what I expected it to be: several good ideas completely screwed by a company that refuses to pull it&#8217;s head out of it&#8217;s ass.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a phone pic of my computer 3 minutes into the process of installing Internet Explorer 9: Why a phone pic? Because it had to completely shut down everything <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/14\/internet-explorer-9-microsoft-still-doesnt-get-it\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}