Well,
Microsoft was offering Windows 7 for special discount price today.. Windows 7 Home Premium European Edition (the European edition doesn't come with Internet Explorer) for just 50â,¬.. instead of 120â,¬ retail.. limited quantatiy.. start in Germany: July 15th 9AM until August 15th but only as long as quantities last..
Result:
Amazon was sold out at 9:06 AM lol ^^
I for myself was quite lucky I wanted Windows 7 (currently testing a beta on my notebook) and well.. I got two licenses (one for my notebook one for my PC).. however all online retailers were sold out after 1 hour.. some store retailers were able to keep copies for 2 hours.
And now the best which made me lol: on 2 PM the Windows newsletter arrived in my mailbox: "Windows 7 pre-ordering program" oh yeah - at 2 PM all shops were sold out.
Great, Microsoft ;)
It doesn't come with Internet Explorer?!
Weather forecast-
Today: overcast and a 90% of pig **** falling from the sky
Tomorrow: The sudden temperature shift in the core of the earth hits at ground level, bundle up
Don't think they are allowed to ship it with IE as it makes it unfair on other browsers
I know they were getting into trouble with it but they made the argument (and I thought won with it) that it was a fundamentally necessary part of the OS.
Quote from: James0x57 on July 15, 2009, 06:58:20 PM
I know they were getting into trouble with it but they made the argument (and I thought won with it) that it was a fundamentally necessary part of the OS.
Well, that was valid for XP.. they slowly moved the internet components away of the core because of security issues (the INternet Explorer being a part of the system core meant if you find a hole in IE means you are directly in the system).. so well.. Windows still ships with the Temdant rendering engine (the HTML renderer which iexplorer.exe basically is the interface of - like firefox is a frontend for Gecko) so that applications such as Steam can still use it. The actual Temdant frontend (Internet Explorer itself) is removed!
Quote from: Link on July 15, 2009, 11:02:48 PM
Quote from: James0x57 on July 15, 2009, 06:58:20 PM
I know they were getting into trouble with it but they made the argument (and I thought won with it) that it was a fundamentally necessary part of the OS.
Well, that was valid for XP.. they slowly moved the internet components away of the core because of security issues (the INternet Explorer being a part of the system core meant if you find a hole in IE means you are directly in the system).. so well.. Windows still ships with the Temdant rendering engine (the HTML renderer which iexplorer.exe basically is the interface of - like firefox is a frontend for Gecko) so that applications such as Steam can still use it. The actual Temdant frontend (Internet Explorer itself) is removed!
I thought the rendering engine for IE was called Trident.
Quote from: lazor on July 16, 2009, 07:31:56 PM
I thought the rendering engine for IE was called Trident.
Absolutely correct, my fault!
But how would u download another web browser without one to download off in the first place?
Quote from: Lunar on July 20, 2009, 12:55:33 PM
But how would u download another web browser without one to download off in the first place?
You hit the nail on the top! I for myself will have Firefox ready on a USB stick.. but seeing many users will probably be unaware. Though well.. most PCs are still sold via OEMs... so these PCs will be preinstalled and I guess a browser will be installed then!