IE8 Beta Is Hilarious

August 4, 2008 at 7:17 am · Filed under Broken on IE8, General

And we weren’t the ones to state this. This time it was Marah Marie after seeing how IE8 played around with her blog name.

We’ve been a little quiet latley in this blog and since we are seeing more post by other people pop up randomly around the Web, talking about frustrations with IE8 Beta, we decided to post one. Maybe we will continue to do this until the next Beta, which is due sometime this month, comes out and we get a chance to evaluate it. Hopefully, focus won’t be put on silly features, (web slices for instance), instead of making this browser truly compliant for once.

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Stop Support for IE6

July 22, 2008 at 10:02 am · Filed under General, ie6

“The best way to get rid of IE6 is to stop supporting it.” some may argue this is a bad move as our responsibility as Web Developers is to support our users and create a nice user experience when navigating through our websites. I completely agree with this statement but I can’t agree to keep supporting a browser that has no respect whatsoever to my work and makes me waste countless hours trying to get things to work correctly on it.

My plan: Every new client that I get is being upgraded to IE7 or FireFox, depending on their usage and thanks to some Racists Websites that don’t work on any other browser except IE.

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Test IE on Your Mac

July 15, 2008 at 5:40 pm · Filed under General

For those of us who decided to dump the PC but are still forced to keep one handy to test our designs, he’s a great tool that will allow you to test without having to set a Virtual Machine, Boot Camp, or any other method on your mac but instead let’s you run a simple program:

http://www.kronenberg.org/ies4osx/

Enjoy,… I guess.

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IE7 Eats up RAM

July 10, 2008 at 3:46 pm · Filed under Broken on IE7, General

Haven’t tried this myself, is not very easy now that I’ve completely crossover Mac and  I only use IE to test Websites about once every week, but it seems that IE is a memory thief.

Has anybody experienced a similar issue? We may need to keep an eye about this on the upcoming IE8 since it seems to be a recent behavior probably caused by a patch?

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A Warning To Users?

July 2, 2008 at 3:11 pm · Filed under General

Microsoft unveiled today their plans to include anti-malware protection on their IE8 browser.

This should sound like good news but when you give it a little bit more thought, things are not as pleasing. Let’s begin with that the appearance of such a vast array of malware is probably Micorosft’s fault since they have always developed software with incredible security holes and then take enormous amount of time to create patches to fix them.

But as you keep reading this article courtesy of Cnet, you realize that all they are doing is adding more warnings when you try to do stuff. This means that I will have to click twice, three times or even more just to get the computer to download something or to perform an action I want it to do just as they have been doing with Vista.

Seriously Microsoft, coming up with a Security measure that mainly focus on the user clicking on a yes button is pretty lame. You should see my Dad around those boxes: he just clicks away without reading or understanding what he’s reading. Amazing security feature.

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Microsoft fail

July 2, 2008 at 10:42 am · Filed under General, Other Microsoft Nightmares, Plain Evil

Well, something like this couldn’t get unnoticed, and i have had a long laugh when i saw it. For me, it is so funny to see a company like Microsoft not using their own products. They admit they suck, no with word, but with actions and that says a lot !!!

Courtesy of Fail Blog

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36 IE Plug Ins To Keep It Fresh and Breathing

June 30, 2008 at 8:45 pm · Filed under General, ie6, ie7, ie8

This is a contradictory post, manly, ’cause I’m against IE and all his grandparents or children, and i will hate even more the grandchildren of this cursed browser. But, for those of u who still suffer of blindness, or those as me who are forced to use it at least to try your sites on it, to make sure they are working fine (which is hard and tedious to make it work accordingly), for those of you, here is 36 tools that will make better your usage or testing. Keep in mind that if u want a perfect experience while browsing a site, I recommend everyone switching to Firefox.

Anyway, here is the link and sorry for such a hate:

http://nethackz.com/36-ie-plug-ins-to-keep-it-fresh-and-breathing/

Enjoy !!

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IE8 Beta 1 June 24 Security Update

June 30, 2008 at 2:51 pm · Filed under General

yep that’s right folks an update but wait if you are a developer like me and use the Developer Tools, i would advise you not to update if you wish to continue using it.

check out the ie blog here

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Billy billy….welcome to our nightmare where u are the arquitech

June 26, 2008 at 1:31 pm · Filed under Frustrations, General, Other Microsoft Nightmares, Plain Evil

This is a letter from Bill Gates to his staff back in 2003, where he is feeling what it takes to use his P.O.S. products.

—- Original Message —-

From: Bill Gates
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:05 AM
To: Jim Allchin
Cc: Chris Jones (WINDOWS); Bharat Shah (NT); Joe Peterson; Will Poole; Brian Valentine; Anoop Gupta (RESEARCH)
Subject: Windows Usability Systematic degradation flame

I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the program management groups don’t drive usability issues.

Let me give you my experience from yesterday.

I decided to download (Moviemaker) and buy the Digital Plus pack … so I went to Microsoft.com. They have a download place so I went there.

The first 5 times I used the site it timed out while trying to bring up the download page. Then after an 8 second delay I got it to come up.

This site is so slow it is unusable.

It wasn’t in the top 5 so I expanded the other 45.

These 45 names are totally confusing. These names make stuff like: C:\Documents and Settings\billg\My Documents\My Pictures seem clear.

They are not filtered by the system … and so many of the things are strange.

I tried scoping to Media stuff. Still no moviemaker. I typed in movie. Nothing. I typed in movie maker. Nothing.

So I gave up and sent mail to Amir saying - where is this Moviemaker download? Does it exist?

So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated.

They told me to go to the main page search button and type movie maker (not moviemaker!).

I tried that. The site was pathetically slow but after 6 seconds of waiting up it came.

I thought for sure now I would see a button to just go do the download.

In fact it is more like a puzzle that you get to solve. It told me to go to Windows Update and do a bunch of incantations.

This struck me as completely odd. Why should I have to go somewhere else and do a scan to download moviemaker?

So I went to Windows update. Windows Update decides I need to download a bunch of controls. (Not) just once but multiple times where I get to see weird dialog boxes.

Doesn’t Windows update know some key to talk to Windows?

Then I did the scan. This took quite some time and I was told it was critical for me to download 17megs of stuff.

This is after I was told we were doing delta patches to things but instead just to get 6 things that are labeled in the SCARIEST possible way I had to download 17meg.

So I did the download. That part was fast. Then it wanted to do an install. This took 6 minutes and the machine was so slow I couldn’t use it for anything else during this time.

What the heck is going on during those 6 minutes? That is crazy. This is after the download was finished.

Then it told me to reboot my machine. Why should I do that? I reboot every night — why should I reboot at that time?

So I did the reboot because it INSISTED on it. Of course that meant completely getting rid of all my Outlook state.

So I got back up and running and went to Windows Update again. I forgot why I was in Windows Update at all since all I wanted was to get Moviemaker.

So I went back to Microsoft.com and looked at the instructions. I have to click on a folder called WindowsXP. Why should I do that? Windows Update knows I am on Windows XP.

What does it mean to have to click on that folder? So I get a bunch of confusing stuff but sure enough one of them is Moviemaker.

So I do the download. The download is fast but the Install takes many minutes. Amazing how slow this thing is.

At some point I get told I need to go get Windows Media Series 9 to download.

So I decide I will go do that. This time I get dialogs saying things like “Open” or “Save”. No guidance in the instructions which to do. I have no clue which to do.

The download is fast and the install takes 7 minutes for this thing.

So now I think I am going to have Moviemaker. I go to my add/remove programs place to make sure it is there.

It is not there.

What is there? The following garbage is there. Microsoft Autoupdate Exclusive test package, Microsoft Autoupdate Reboot test package, Microsoft Autoupdate testpackage1. Microsoft AUtoupdate testpackage2, Microsoft Autoupdate Test package3.

Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up.

But that is just the start of the crap. Later I have listed things like Windows XP Hotfix see Q329048 for more information. What is Q329048? Why are these series of patches listed here? Some of the patches just things like Q810655 instead of saying see Q329048 for more information.

What an absolute mess.

Moviemaker is just not there at all.

So I give up on Moviemaker and decide to download the Digital Plus Package.

I get told I need to go enter a bunch of information about myself.

I enter it all in and because it decides I have mistyped something I have to try again. Of course it has cleared out most of what I typed.

I try (typing) the right stuff in 5 times and it just keeps clearing things out for me to type them in again.

So after more than an hour of craziness and making my programs list garbage and being scared and seeing that Microsoft.com is a terrible website I haven’t run Moviemaker and I haven’t got the plus package.

The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind. I thought we had reached a low with Windows Network places or the messages I get when I try to use 802.11. (don’t you just love that root certificate message?)

When I really get to use the stuff I am sure I will have more feedback.

Courtesy of seattlepi

I had to laugh, honestly…….

Even more when i read a few comments that user left on that page:

Looks like Bill got bit by his own monster.

I would have thought his job was to ensure these things get fixed, not just complain about them like the rest of us!

Now he knows why I run Linux. It just works.

The fact that his rant was emailed in early 2003 and the company has continued to make these same mistakes over and over since then is a great indicator of the direction Microsoft is headed: obsolescence. Yes, Microsoft keeps raking in the billions, but not for much longer.

Well, at least they fixed all those problems with Vista…ha, ha, yes, that was a joke!!!

Get a Mac.

The Steve Jobs version:

“If the MovieMaker download site isn’t working by tomorrow at 6 am I will come down there at 6:01 am an choke the living ___ out of all of you.”

This is why I have been using a mac for over twenty years.

This is the reason I gave up on Vista and bought a MacBook. I couldn’t be happier.

Dear Bill,

that’s the job we have to do. Every day …….

Thanks a lot

Someone should tell Billy you can DL it directly from piratebay.org

What can i say……. it made my day.

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Firefox Record

June 23, 2008 at 1:49 pm · Filed under General

We’ve been MIA the last couple of days because, among other things:

1. There is nothing new to say about IE8 and all it’s suckiness.
2. Eurocup is occupying some of our research time.
3. Following the Firefox record occupied the rest of the time we devoted to exposing IE8 suckiness.

But don’t be scared, IE8 Beta 2 is just around the corner (about two to three months to be a little bit more exact) and we are sure we will have tons of information to post.

In the meantime we’ll keep our eyes open for any new developments on the IE8 front.

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