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Comment Re:Windows 7 includes IE8... (Score 1) 160

by bwian on Monday July 20, 2009 @12:36PM (#28757577) Attached to: Microsoft Backs Down On Making IE8 Default At Upgrade

Not in Europe
see http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/06/windows-7-to-be-shipped-in-europe-sans-internet-explorer.ars
MS have also stopped Windows 7 upgrades in Europe. It's a clean install, or forget it.

Comment Re:A billion years from now... (Score 1) 239

by bwian on Tuesday May 26, 2009 @11:38AM (#28095903) Attached to: Nanotech Memory Could Hold Data For 1 Billion Years

Hey it's an audio recording ... "640k should be en..." .... hey can you find volume 2 ?

Comment Sounds familiar (Score 1) 258

by bwian on Saturday June 21, 2008 @04:15PM (#23888061) Attached to: Hotmail Full Version Incompatible With Firefox 3

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/08/1355246&from=rss
"Hotmail Doesn't Work With Linux Firefox 2.0" - Fri Feb 08, 2008 10:35 AM
"... The writer concludes that the webmail interface has been artificially limited by basic user-agent sniffing. The solution is simple enough: spoofing the User Agent that Firefox report"

I wonder if it works with IE8 beta ... it is supposed to be standards compliant by default.

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