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Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
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Wed, 22 Mar 2000 04:14:16 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Asher Kobin writes:
In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
I'd like to see that browser be Mozilla, but MSIE is still far, far more
solid.  BTW, does MS have any plans to release a Linux version of MSIE?
Or is it recommended to run it under WINE instead?

For Linux users, Microsoft recommends following the instructions in this KB
article:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q247/8/04.ASP

I did the reverse when I bought my last computer.  When it arrived, I just
needed to boot NT once to make sure the hardware wasn't damaged before
reformatting the drive and putting a real OS (Linux) on it.  Felt good.
I also ran a free copy of Bill Gates's book _The_Road_Ahead_ through the
paper shredder a few months ago and used it for packing material.  Felt good
too.  :)

Um, this is getting pretty far off-topic.

--Todd

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  Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
 
While we're off-topic, lemme just quickly complain about the way MS's content-generation "tools" use "Microsoft Latin-1" instead of the actual ISO 8859-1 Latin-1 character set. Urg. (URL) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) For Linux users, Microsoft recommends following the instructions in this KB article: (URL) I can't answer your question, but I can say that Microsoft's awareness (and interest) of the Linux OS has increased dramatically, although it did take (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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