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Re: Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It In... by swolchok on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @06:03PM (#838091)
No one legitimate is going to do this because of the legal risks. No one illegitimate is going to do this because it's probably not as profitable as building a botnet.
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Re: Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It In... by camccann on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @07:33PM (#838238)
Alas, it seems that the intersection of "brilliant coders", "criminals", and "philanthropists" is a vanishingly small set.
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Re: Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It In... by scotty79 on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @08:02PM (#838286)
Do you imply that people who ignore some laws do things only for profit?
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Re: Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It In... by pwmanagerdied on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @11:54PM (#838571)
No, he didn't.
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Re: Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It In... by GrandMasterBirt on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @01:05AM (#838659)
Nope... Google might pay companies like dell and hp to sneak this baby into pre-installations. Woo. And I am sure there will be a google javascript thingy which detects IE and gives you a message about download this and supporting pages will magically run soooo much faster and look sooo much more awesome.
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Re: Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It In... by dagw on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @03:14AM (#838815)
That's only half the problem. The other part of the problem are the large number of companies that force their employees to use IE6 (or if they're lucky IE7), combined with the large number of in house web apps that only work with those browsers.
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Re: Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It In... by snprbob86 on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @03:24AM (#838823)
You can't convince admins to install IE7 if it breaks IE6 pages, but you can convince them to install Flash. This is an opt-in plug-in on the server side. It seems like there would be far less opposition to installing this by admins if Google packages and markets it correctly.
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