Video about IE8 from Microsoft

[onlysomeone]

Hi guys!

While reading the daily online-news i found a link to an interesting video from Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/videos.aspx?vindex=14

In this video Microsoft states that IE8 is a fast webbrowser and that it can keep up with Firefox and Chrome...

Well it seems to be some kind of advertisement, but i think there could be some true core - or not?

What do you think?
(I can't test the Beta 2 of IE8, because I'm on Win7, but its hard to believe that any other browser can keep up with Chrome/Iron  (which i use ))

yours
onlysomeone

[Eddy]

I have IE8 installed and it is definatly slower then FF and Chrome. Fastest on my systems is still Opera.
But as most companies say "our product is the best".

It is faster than IE7, that is sure. But it is not hard to create a browser that is faster than IE7
Even I did it once in Visual Basic.

[bob3160]

MS actuallt clained that IE8 was faster at opening 25 selected websites.
I'll still stick with SRWare Iron except right now since I'm on Windows7. which comes with IE8

[Eddy]

You can remove IE8 in Windows 7. The Eurpean Commity is very likely gonna rule that MS may not ship a default browser with Windows 7 soon. Just as they did with Media Player. Looks like MS already have taken that in mind so they added the option to remove it.

[DavidR]

Not entirely correct, you aren't actually removing anything other that the iexplore.exe from view, the rest is still used by windows 7 in the same way as earlier versions of IE so it is still integrated, you can't completely uninstall it as it isn't independent of the OS.

So for me there really is no difference from now were IE still lives on my system although I try to avoid it, you can't when using explorer, help files, windows live mail, etc. so you still have to keep taking the tablets (IE security Updates).

[bob3160]

So for me there really is no difference from now were IE still lives on my system although I try to avoid it, you can't when using explorer, help files, windows live mail, etc. so you still have to keep taking the tablets (IE security Updates).

There is always an alternative:
Buy a Mac  or,
Use Linux 
You (Me or Any of Us) aren't forced to buy Microsoft's product.