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 !!! 
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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 !!
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
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 flameI 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.
We’ve been MIA the last couple of days because, among other things:
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.
In a strange development and a surprise move, Microsoft has announced that it will halt production of IE8 in favor of Firefox 3.
After careful consideration by the IE8 team they have realized that their efforts are geared better towards improving an already good product than trying to salvage the nightmare that has been the Internet Explorer Browser since it’s conception.
Web Developers all over the world have taken the streets to celebrate. One Developer was overhear saying: “At last I will be able to sleep and eat as a regular human being, I mean I couldn’t think of anything other than IE hacks for almost 6 years. This is a true blessing.”
We will keep you posted as more news developed. So far you can read more about this amazing day here and here.
* Sigh, only in a perfect world.
Tomorrow is an special day, is the day our beloved Firefox 3 is released, and all the browser lovers, are willing to see this every day tool to be used more than Internet Explorer which is a shame and the most hated software out there, I can bet; so tomorrow, let’s take 3 minutes, to download and install this browser, every download counts. Mozilla, the peoples behind Firefox, are trying to make a Guinness record, the software most downloaded in 24 hr, u can check all the information here:
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord
So peoples, let’s do it.
Let’s show Microsoft, that he can take that piece of crap browser and introduce it where the back lose his name.
It’s been quiet for a while here on Stupid IE since we’ve been busy doing some better things than worrying about IE and also because we are waiting for the next release of IE8 to see what surprises it yields.
But today, we have been hit with this piece, directly from the Microsoft Blog and we wanted to leave our two cents.
It seems that Microsoft didn’t have enough with creating their Meta Tag but now they’ve decided to create another one which does the same thing but in a different way or something in between. Yes, I don’t understand either but this is Microsoft we are talking about people, nothing is supposed to be understood.
“NOTE: The X-UA-Compatible tag and header override any existing DOCTYPE. Also, the mode specified by the page takes precedent over the HTTP header. For example, you could add the EmulateIE7 HTTP header to a site, and set specific pages to display in IE8 mode (by using the meta-tag with content=”IE8”).
Using the IE=EmulateIE7 compatibility tag is a simple way for users to continue their current experience when browsing your site until you can update with more standards-compliant content. Although adding this tag will prevent most display issues, you may also need to update your site to properly detect IE8. ”
So I can have the tag on the website but have another one on the pages and then this will prevent some, not all, of the issues until my content is more compliant???? So the fact that your browser was not compliant to begin with means I know have to do more work than before??
We are checking into a mental hospital pretty soon. Anyone care to join?
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord Take the pledge, spread the word, download Firefox and help us get rid of the IE nightmare once and for all.
I just wondered what it would be like if there were a car that behaved like
Internet Explorer.
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