why experts emphasis use internet explorer ?
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I've never heard experts recommend IE. I never will anyway; always been a Firefox person.
strollin
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I think that experts don't necessarily recommend IE but, like it or not, IE is still the most widely used browser out there since every machine that ships with Windows has it installed. Most users use IE as their browser simply because they aren't aware of the alternatives.
Metal Man 2
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No expert here but I have used FF and chrome , hated IE. Since I built my new desktop I have wanted to stay with IE9 maily to keep from adding other browsers to my system. I would guess the "expert" you speak of are Microsoft experts. For bussiness apps I can see keeping the system running with its own programs. For personal use you have choices.
That's why you should go online and buy a European copy of Windows-E
It doesn't include IE due to the European ruling of Microsoft being a monopoly in the web browser world 
Hsv_Man
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That's why you should go online and buy a European copy of Windows-E
^ Yeah there was a big court case over it not too long ago and the judge ruled that they had to stop integrating IE into windows i know this was true for XP don't know about Vista or Windows 7 though.
Same followed through with Vista and 7. They both have N and E editions available.
Metal Man 2
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I installed FF this morning.
Metal Man 2
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I forgot how good FF is. IE for some reason has always kicked me off of websites that I am on and have to log back in. Mainly school website but did it to all even here. Also I could not watch school vids unless I did a save as, and for some reason FF plays them with out the hassle of doing save as. Just click on vid and it plays.
tlarkin
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Not only is IE the worst browser you can use, all the back end technologies that businesses use (like IE only sites and such) are becoming less and less common. Companies are shifting away from Active X and going with open standards.
Microsoft is really good at one thing, and that is business. They got into all the right places at the exact right time in the 90s during the tech boom, and they came up with technologies to allow big business bring computers to every employee. However, times are changing and companies are now realizing that there are better back end products. Plus, web developers are more common these days, and thus there are more of them. Which means more sets of eyes at more code all improving the web's open standards.
The only reason why anyone will support IE, is because some companies spent multiple millions of dollars building an Active X back end, and is that it comes standard on every Windows box you ever use.
Firefox is actually sort of hard to manage in a corporate environment. You gotta do all kinds of crazy stuff, like import profiles, lock down firefox preferences, password protect certain parts of the browser. That is if you don't want your users downloading and installed 100s of FF extensions on their computer.
Microsoft is really good at one thing, and that is business. They got into all the right places at the exact right time in the 90s during the tech boom, and they came up with technologies to allow big business bring computers to every employee. However, times are changing and companies are now realizing that there are better back end products. Plus, web developers are more common these days, and thus there are more of them. Which means more sets of eyes at more code all improving the web's open standards.
The only reason why anyone will support IE, is because some companies spent multiple millions of dollars building an Active X back end, and is that it comes standard on every Windows box you ever use.
Firefox is actually sort of hard to manage in a corporate environment. You gotta do all kinds of crazy stuff, like import profiles, lock down firefox preferences, password protect certain parts of the browser. That is if you don't want your users downloading and installed 100s of FF extensions on their computer.
