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  1. 09-24-2004, 05:19 AM #1
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    Arrow Microsoft: To secure IE, upgrade to XP

    Take aim carefully at the foot and pull the trigger

    If you're one of about 200 million people using older versions of Windows and you want the latest security enhancements to Internet Explorer, get your credit card ready.

    Microsoft this week reiterated that it would keep the new version of Microsoft's IE Web browser available only as part of the recently released Windows XP operating system, Service Pack 2. The upgrade to XP from any previous Windows versions is $99 when ordered from Microsoft. Starting from scratch, the operating system costs $199.

    That, analysts say, is a steep price to pay to secure a browser that swept the market as a free, standalone product.

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    Even before this Firefox and Opera's share of the market was growing. Also saw google may come out with a browser.
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  2. 09-24-2004, 09:30 AM #2
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    This is why I am using firefox on my home PC and on my work laptop (I have to use IE for other work-based tools, but even our in-house software developers use firefox).
    I think over again
    My small adventures, my fears.
    The small ones that seemed so big,
    For all the vital things I had to get and to reach.

    And yet there is only one great thing, the only thing:

    To live to see the great day that dawns,
    And the light that fills the world.

    -old Inuit song
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  3. 09-24-2004, 09:54 AM #3
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    That's why I love Firefox.

    At work I still use IE with Windows 2000 but it's not my problem to upgrade that system.
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