I am working on my in-law's PC at the moment. Since they are on a dial-up connection I thought I would run all of the Microsoft Updates for them while I am working on it. By the way I had to add memory thanks to Norton AV. Never again Norton, never again! That is another blog altogether.
Included in the list of critical updates was IE 7. The in-laws are computer users but they are not interested in new and fancy. I went ahead and let it install for two reasons. I thought I would see what it looked like and there maybe a security advantage to it.
On a 5mb cable connection it took over a minute to scan this blog with the anti-phishing nonsense. That was killed instantly. There is no way this is ever going to be possible on a dial-up account. Well, there goes the security advantage.
What is wrong with the buttons at the top and why can't I change them???? I put the "File Edit..." menu back on the screen but I was not able to get it above the retarded bubble buttons. It took several tries to add this blog to the favorites menu. Why is RSS so freaking hard for browsers to deal with? Don't laugh firefox, I'm talking to you too. RSS is not the same as a bookmark, don't treat it as such!
Why is it assumed that I want a cartoon look to software. Maybe I don't want to WASTE processor time to render a jazzy interface. Stupid bubble arrows.
Either way, I regret having installed IE 7 now. The interface change alone will likely cause me some heartburn. I don't care how "clean and simple" you make an interface if you don't allow the user to control it then you are dead wrong my friend. I don't care if you think it is silly or old fashioned of me but I want to control what I am looking at and how it works.
The bottom line is that IE 7 is to Firefox as OpenOffice is to MS Office 2003. It works like Firefox but it is still just a copy of some of the features. I am not ready to put any of my machines on IE7. I am closer to moving completely to Ubuntu!
