Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate out now

[Rik]

XP is to old I think Rik, its gettin g hard to maintain safely that's my only thought on that really, and the "nanny state" is not really an issue, I like it on the laptop, you get used to it fast and at least you are a bit safer.

I'm so long in the tooth, Gary, that the nanny state does matter to me. I object strongly to being told what I can and can't do.

[Technical Ben]

Does that mean you have not even tried it then Rik? You should at least try it before you reject it. IE8 was very good but IE9 seems to be much better and most certainly better than anything else I have tried (including Firefox, opera and Chrome). I think MS have listened to it's users and reacted positively much in the same way as they did for Vista / W7.   

"try it before you reject it". Only if you prove it's non fatal first!   

[pctech]

What I object to in Win 7 is the 'nanny State' attitude of the OS, Mitch. XP lets me do what I want, and accept responsibility for doing so.

I'd agree which is why on a Vista or 7 system I turn off UAC.

[Rik]

I also make mine look like XP.

[pctech]

 

[Den]

It's much harder to make XP look and perform like W7 

[Rik]

Luckily.

[Den]

No, just not capable of improving that much.   

[Technical Ben]

It's much harder to make XP look and perform like W7 

Not if you have a Windows 7 DVD... 

[Gary]

I'm so long in the tooth, Gary, that the nanny state does matter to me. I object strongly to being told what I can and can't do.

Surely though if its to protect the OS thats a good thing, that's a bit like telling the fire safety officer to bog off you are fine then wondering why your house burned down, saying that if it does what you need that's fine, but in ten years a lot has changed in security and xp was a sieve to start SP@ helped but the leaps forward with Vistas security and the polish on seven make it well worth while I think. Saying that the upgrade and reinstall of all your favs can be daunting, I guess if its not broke...

[Gary]

I'd agree which is why on a Vista or 7 system I turn off UAC.

You turn of UAC? Its hardly annoying and is designed to protect at a level you can't, so many decent security sites warn against that as well...each to their own though, if we were all the same I would have no one to argue with 

[Steve]

It is a bit odd turning a security setting off I guess one approach is to have two accounts and use the UAC on account for general use and a UAC off account for admin purposes . My fear with UAC off would be that something may slip past my attention whereas with a separate UAC off account I would be using it for a specific admin purpose so I should be concentrating.

[Lance]

Uac has never bothered me as using the pc in a everyday useage scenario (email, web and documents) means you don't ever see it.

[sparkler]

UAC in windows is poorly implemented and the black screen and sound is annoying linux's way of getting root rights is way better

also is this better than IE9
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

[Rik]

Surely though if its to protect the OS thats a good thing

It is, Gary. OTOH, I find using Win 7 makes me less productive, eg in XP I have a shortcut set up to create a system restore point. In 7, I seem to have to jump through hoops to do the same simple task. Using it for 'non system' activities, the transition is relatively seamless, but that's not the case at 'low level'. I appreciate that it's more secure, just as newer cars etc would be. OTOH, in 29 years of computing, the only viruses and malware I've seen have been on other people's machines.

[Simon]

I've only had one 'virus' in 10 years, and I never identified that, so it may not even have been one. 

[Rik]

Rhinovirus?

[Simon]

Err... 

[Rik]

The common cold.

[Glenn]

I installed this yesterday, it instantly broke Outlook 2007, I couldn't open any links in emails.

[Rik]

Great.

[Ray]

No problem with Outlook 2010 though.

[Rik]

Now that doesn't surprise me. Simple cure, "You need to upgrade your copy of Office, sir".

[Ray]

  well it is MS we're talking about, Rik, 

[Glenn]

I found an MS registry fix for if IE8 is removed, all is good now.