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Internet Explorer under fire in Europe

#1 User is offline   Sam Granger Icon

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Posted 19 January 2010 - 08:20 AM

Hopefully this will reduce IE(6) users :)

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Microsoft Corp. challenged recommendations by European officials that people stop using its Internet Explorer browser because of a security hole that hackers exploited in the recent attack on Google Inc. and other companies.

In an unusual move, German and French agencies posted notices on their Web sites warning against using Internet Explorer and advising computer users to switch to alternatives.

The advisories appeared to give at least one Microsoft competitor a boost. Opera Software ASA, a Norwegian software company, said the number of downloads in Germany of its Opera browser doubled to 18,000 ...


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Posted 19 January 2010 - 02:53 PM

I wish they did this in the U.S.A too! Like I've said before, someone from Firefox company should sneak into Microsoft Corp, and slip a Firefox update in it to replace IE8 later... LOL!
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Posted 20 January 2010 - 03:45 AM

View Postspencerp, on 19 January 2010 - 02:53 PM, said:

I wish they did this in the U.S.A too! Like I've said before, someone from Firefox company should sneak into Microsoft Corp, and slip a Firefox update in it to replace IE8 later... LOL!


Like that's gonna happen! :P
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Posted 21 January 2010 - 11:18 PM

View PostGaz, on 20 January 2010 - 03:45 AM, said:

Like that's gonna happen! :P


Yeah I know, sucks. :(
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