Just this one time
July 28, 2006 – 10:48 pmAttention:
To all of you wastoids who still insist on using Internet Explorer, even after the Mozilla Foundation offered you a vastly superior and more standards compliant browser (Firefox) for FREE. And even after Opera Software decided to stop charging for their also vastly superior browser (Opera).
Microsoft has recently released to the public the third beta version of their new browser, Internet Explorer 7. You might as well go ahead and download it now to get used to the new feel of things, because Microsoft is going to push it to you as an automatic update very soon anyway.
Go ahead and click that link up there, download it and install it. Please. Then, after the obligatory restart that any and all Microsoft product requires after installation, you may bask in the warm fuzzy glow of what I believe to be a fully functional internet experience. Relax and enjoy the ride as you surf across the complex series of tubes without delay! I won’t bother going into detail about new features or whatever. If you are intelligent enough to have already started using Firefox, then you pretty much know all of IE7’s features. The only difference is that trademark Microsoft shiny and blue theme (at least on my machine using the Windows XP Silver theme).
Unfortunately, as a web designer, I must keep at least one of my computers infected with Internet Explorer 6 so that I may continue to test, troubleshoot, completely rewrite my websites to make sure that they display properly in all browsers. I curse Microsoft for ever having released such a piece of crap, and especially for having come away from it with any sense of pride left in them.
Take note, this will probably be the only time that I EVER suggest a Microsoft product or even link to a Microsoft website for that matter. Heck I feel bad even having to capitolize that word.
