Microsoft warns of IE8 lock-in with XP SP3

[Guest Daave]

Microsoft warns of IE8 lock-in with XP SP3

Also notes other problems, including crashing Windows Live Mail

 

http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9113739

 

Remember, Beta is for testers!!!!

[Guest smlunatick]

Re: Microsoft warns of IE8 lock-in with XP SP3

 

On Aug 29, 4:22 pm, "Daave" <dcwashNOS...@myrealboxXYZ.invalid> wrote:

> Microsoft warns of IE8 lock-in with XP SP3

> Also notes other problems, including crashing Windows Live Mail

>

> http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&a....

>

> Remember, Beta is for testers!!!!

 

This is a previous "known" / "published" warning!!! If you have

installed IE 7 or IE8 prior to updating to Service Pack 3, you will

not be able to uninstall the "newer" IE.

[Guest Daave]

Re: Microsoft warns of IE8 lock-in with XP SP3

 

"smlunatick" <yveslec@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:021e647b-5a5b-48a7-9aa0-e7997a40f75f@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...

On Aug 29, 4:22 pm, "Daave" <dcwashNOS...@myrealboxXYZ.invalid> wrote:

>> Microsoft warns of IE8 lock-in with XP SP3

>> Also notes other problems, including crashing Windows Live Mail

>>

>> http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&a...

>>

>> Remember, Beta is for testers!!!!

> This is a previous "known" / "published" warning!!! If you have

> installed IE 7 or IE8 prior to updating to Service Pack 3, you will

> not be able to uninstall the "newer" IE.

 

Actually, this is different.

 

In the examples you mentioned, the user could uninstall SP3. But once

someone installs IE8 Beta 2, even that option is gone.

 

Changing the topic...

 

Has anyone noticed that Outlook Express is unable to properly handle

attribution marks when replying to a post like smlunatick's? (That is,

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 /

Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable, as in Google Groups)

 

OEQuoteFix seems to fix this issue. Still, I think I'd like to try

another newsreader that has a similar feel to OE but that also is

GNKSA-compliant. So far, I've tried Xnews, Agent, 40tude, and

Thinderbird, but to tell you the truth, none of these seems to be as

comfortable as OE!