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    Microsoft Basically Admits that IE8 Is for Porn

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    Image of Curves Curves
    03/20/09

    In reply to Microsoft Basically Admits that IE8 Is for Porn
    I have never downloaded pr0n and I feel like I have been left out of a big part of computing.
    No IPhone and no pr0n. My life sucks
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    Image of Serolf Divad Serolf Divad
    03/20/09

    In reply to Microsoft Basically Admits that IE8 Is for Porn
    By "porn" do you guys mean pornography? Is there really pornography on the internet?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/20/09

    @Serolf Divad: From what I heard, they have the internet on computers now!
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    03/20/09

    In reply to Microsoft Basically Admits that IE8 Is for Porn
    The internet is for two things: buying crap you don't need and downloading copious amounts of pornography.


    Mark, you seemed shocked to discover this.



    And that is why you fail.

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    03/20/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: View or view not. There is no try, only view.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    03/20/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Which category does commenting on Gizmodo fall in?
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    03/20/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: You mean commenting on "the site "OMG! Ponies!" frequents".
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    03/20/09

    In reply to Microsoft Basically Admits that IE8 Is for Porn
    I don't my wife to be able to see what I'm buying her for her birthday! It would ruin the surprise!


    I'm buying her porn.

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    Image of Monty Monty
    03/19/09

    In reply to Internet Explorer 8 Gets All Final to Join New Browser Party
    Nice job, Microsoft - we all knew you could count to eight, but it is a shame this new software still looks like the soft brown stuff. Keep trying, though. Next number is nine. Then ten. Doubt it will ever look better, but don't give up!


    No - wait. Changed my mind. Go ahead and give up.

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    Image of Kahuna89 Kahuna89
    03/19/09

    In reply to Internet Explorer 8 Gets All Final to Join New Browser Party
    internet explorer suckin on my ballsac
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    Image of Monty Monty
    03/19/09

    @Kahuna89: I am sure we all love a good ballsy sucking, but I am glad you didn't include the link to the YouTube video.
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    Image of Jacob Corbin Jacob Corbin
    03/19/09

    In reply to Internet Explorer 8 Gets All Final to Join New Browser Party
    God, can IE just die already?
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    Image of Cordfucious of Tech Clan Cordfucious of Tech Clan
    03/19/09

    @Jacob Corbin: my thoughts exactly
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    Image of Davy Grolton Davy Grolton
    03/19/09

    @Jacob Corbin: I'm not sure why all the hate towards IE.


    I hated IE, until IE7 came out, and IE8 is quite fast.


    For my purposes, there's IE does the same things as Firefox.


    But honestly, whatever happened to "to each his own?"


    It's a browser. It displays the internets. Done.

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    Image of soopafly soopafly
    03/19/09

    @Davy Grolton: You're obviously not a developer. Not that there's anything bad about it, but 99.9% of us developers absolutely HATE IEx.


    Normal consumers will never know how much extra time and effort goes into making things work the way it's suppose to in IE.

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    Image of Dillinger23 Dillinger23
    03/19/09

    @soopafly: ^^, and let me tell you, NOTHING in the whole fucking world is more frustrating than building a site for a client and they go look at it and lo and behold they still have fucking ie6 installed.


    Its never fun to tell your client to update his computer or check it on a different one.

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    Image of Falsoman Falsoman
    03/19/09

    @dillinger23: It's HORRIBLE. Here we have all this new CSS3 tricks that simplify our life so much being implemented on every browser ever created and then you realize that it's most likely that about 20-25 percent of the site's traffic is going to be on IE6 with another 40-50 on IE7. So you basicly have to give up most of those tricks.


    The fact that i still have to put that long ass instruction on every part of the CSS that dares to use a PNG with transparency is incredibly tyring. Or having to have special instructions for margins or padding or anything because explorer renders it differently... too much work.

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    Image of Sora57 is rendering Sora57 is rendering
    03/19/09

    In reply to Internet Explorer 8 Gets All Final to Join New Browser Party
    Late to the browser party? Should they have called it IEL8?
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    Image of Monty Monty
    03/19/09

    @Sora57: Not to b8 you, but after the w8 it is pretty easy to r8 this l8 browser, right m8?
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    Image of Sora57 is rendering Sora57 is rendering
    03/19/09

    @Monty: That was GR8.
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    Image of iomatic, hey, I'm an idiot, but I'll comment anyway iomatic, hey, I'm an idiot, but I'll comment anyway
    03/19/09

    @Sora57: Don't h8, just masterb…
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    Image of Sora57 is rendering Sora57 is rendering
    03/19/09

    @iomatic: that is our F8.
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    Image of Jim-Bob Jim-Bob
    02/19/09

    In reply to Internet Explorer 8's Incompatability List Is Really Sad
    Why does Microsoft release crap without getting it right the first time? If I were them, I wouldn't even hint at this without knowing that it works to begin with. Then again, I use Firefox like every other half way intelligent PC owner, so this doesn't really affect me.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    02/19/09

    @Jim-Bob: Pure business. Testing costs a lot of money, and MS doesnt have to do it; they release something, let users find the bugs (while paying for the pleasure) and then the users get back to MS with the bugs, which they may or may not fix. They cut costs and increase price. Perfect business model.
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    Image of ZLevee ZLevee
    02/19/09

    @Jim-Bob: Well, they haven't released this yet. It's a release candidate version, not the final.
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    Image of scrapking scrapking
    02/19/09

    In reply to Internet Explorer 8's Incompatability List Is Really Sad
    I didn't even know IE8 was out (heads off to see about downloading it).
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    Image of ZLevee ZLevee
    02/19/09

    @scrapking: It's a release candidate, not the final.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    02/19/09

    In reply to Internet Explorer 8's Incompatability List Is Really Sad
    Actually, you dont even have to have a legal copy of Windows to get it for free. I hear.
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    Image of Jestermeister Jestermeister
    02/19/09

    In reply to Internet Explorer 8's Incompatability List Is Really Sad
    I think this is just a clever way for Gizmodo to show us even more ads. Has ANYONE reading this site not heard of Frooch's twin brother Demetri Martin at this point?
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    02/19/09

    @jestermeister: Just make sure your browser has this seal of approval:
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    Image of Shaprepenr Shaprepenr
    02/19/09

    In reply to Internet Explorer 8's Incompatability List Is Really Sad
    Wow. Their own web site doesn't work. Microsoft should just give up on the PC business and do XBox cuz it's the only thing they are good at currently. -__-
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    02/19/09

    @Shaprepenr:


    I concur. The Xbox is a surprisingly seamless piece of kit - although fallout 3 froze on me twice last night - however i haven't cleaned the lens yet.

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    Image of CatboyMac's angry girlfriend CatboyMac's angry girlfriend
    02/19/09

    In reply to Internet Explorer 8's Incompatability List Is Really Sad
    Why would Microsoft even try with Internet Explorer? IT COMES WITH WINDOWS. You don't need to sell people on something they already have.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    02/19/09

    @CatboyMac's angry girlfriend: Microsoft is trying to "convince" people to use IE so that users doesn't have to resort to other browsers like Firefox. The more people use IE, the more it is accepted as a "standard", therefore sell more dev kits to developers that conforms to the IE8 "standard".
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    Image of ZLevee ZLevee
    02/19/09

    @CatboyMac's angry girlfriend: actually the biggest reason is probably that MS has for a long time felt online services, onlince software, cloud computing, etc. are where the PC world is headed (whcih of course are services they will charge for). If you're gonna try to lead the pack, you want your own foundation, AND you want it to be as widespread as possible. Same reason Google developed chrome -- they fully sadi they don't really give a shit about chrome as a browser, but wanted a platform they control as they roll out online apps for it.
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    Image of MikeSWelch MikeSWelch
    02/19/09

    In reply to Internet Explorer 8's Incompatability List Is Really Sad
    Love that Microsoft.com is incompatible.
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    Image of Linux Chief hardware engineer Linux Chief hardware engineer
    02/19/09

    @MikeSWelch:

    Wow, IE has never sucked more.

    I think 8 is slower than 7.

    hahaha
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    Image of ZLevee ZLevee
    02/19/09

    @Jim Halpert: Actually you're wrong on 2 counts there [blogs.zdnet.com] But thanks for being useless.
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