Internet Explorer Turns 15

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 16, 2010 @09:00AM from the and-the-internet-has-never-been-the-same dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Software giant Microsoft's Internet Explorer turned 15 years old on Monday. The company recently said it would launch the Internet Explorer 9 public beta version on September 15, 2010. The software giant launched the first version of the browser, Internet Explorer 1, on August 16, 1995. It was a revised version of Spyglass Mosaic, which Microsoft had licensed from Spyglass Inc."

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IE turns 15... (Score:2, Funny)

by eexaa ( 1252378 ) writes: on Monday August 16, 2010 @09:01AM (#33262580) Homepage

...kindof post-mortem...

Nice and legal in ... (Score:2, Funny)

by longhairedgnome ( 610579 ) writes: on Monday August 16, 2010 @09:03AM (#33262600)

Thailand! Look out boys, Microsoft will be out on the town soon!

The Future (Score:1, Funny)

by Reilaos ( 1544173 ) writes: on Monday August 16, 2010 @09:03AM (#33262602) Homepage

Has Internet Explorer thought hard about what it wants to do with its life? It's very nearly all grown up, isn't it time to think about college?

Re:IE turns 15... (Score:2, Funny)

by VGPowerlord ( 621254 ) writes: on Monday August 16, 2010 @09:06AM (#33262630)

...kindof post-mortem...
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." -- Internet Explorer... er... Mark Twain

Re:Nice and legal in ... (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday August 16, 2010 @09:07AM (#33262634)

Careful, it can spread viruses like crazy.

Re:The Future (Score:4, Funny)

by aradnik ( 1831756 ) writes: on Monday August 16, 2010 @09:08AM (#33262648)

do you remember what it was like being 15? i bet ie's plotting to get opera in bed or something :)

Re:The Future (Score:2, Funny)

by aradnik ( 1831756 ) writes: on Monday August 16, 2010 @09:10AM (#33262668)

oh man i'm getting old... shoudl've been "plotting on operas, firefoxes and chromes asses"... this way it'd be insightful at least...

Re:IE turns 15... (Score:5, Funny)

by bondsbw ( 888959 ) writes: on Monday August 16, 2010 @09:13AM (#33262686)
History of IE:
- Cool... we can go to web pages!
- Eh, I like Netscape better.
- But wait... we can theme IE!
- Microsoft sucks! Down with IE!
- Oooh... so yeah, I hate to say this since I hate Microsoft, but Netscape really sucks... they haven't upgraded it in like 5 years. And it's owned by AOL, the other enemy. Guess I have to go with IE...
- IE hasn't been upgraded in like 5 years... we need something new.
- *From heaven* "BEHOLD, FIREFOX!"
- Microsoft: Oh crap, you mean we have to put out a new version of IE? Do we still have developers around?
- Apple: Let's take a Safari...
- Google: Hey, me too!
- Opera: Ok guys, we'll make it free... we get it.
- Opera: HELLO!!?!? Anybody there?
Re:Mid 90's (Score:4, Funny)

by spiffmastercow ( 1001386 ) writes: on Monday August 16, 2010 @09:15AM (#33262706)

yes but we all not what happened to Netscape. We can only pray IE suffers the safe fate.
That it gets abandoned, and a team of open source coders picks it up?

Re:IE turns 15... (Score:3, Funny)

by jgagnon ( 1663075 ) writes: on Monday August 16, 2010 @09:52AM (#33262948)

He was also much older and much thinner than IE...

Re:IE for other platforms (Score:3, Funny)

by Jurily ( 900488 ) writes: <jurily&gmail,com> on Monday August 16, 2010 @10:19AM (#33263200)

I would very much mind, IE9 on any platforms is asking for insanity.

Great! (Score:3, Funny)

by geminidomino ( 614729 ) writes: on Monday August 16, 2010 @11:12AM (#33263900) Journal

Does that mean we can charge it as an adult now?

Re:IE turns 15... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday August 16, 2010 @11:21AM (#33264012)

If someone could tie Pidgin into Opera, I'd never need another bit of software again.
FYI: Emacs has been around for quite a while.

Re:IE turns 15... (Score:3, Funny)

by nschubach ( 922175 ) writes: on Monday August 16, 2010 @11:36AM (#33264180) Journal

It was included in my Professional edition... either via the disk or a covert update (because I didn't see anything about the DVD maker in the update summaries.)
Which brings me to another issue I have with Win7... I removed the Libraries and Favorites links from Explorer and they keep pushing them back in during updates. I wish there was a layer of user settings that even Microsoft has to abide by.

Re:IE turns 15... (Score:4, Funny)

by darkpixel2k ( 623900 ) writes: on Monday August 16, 2010 @11:43AM (#33264246)

Hardly anyone has upgraded? I don't even think I know anybody personally that hasn't upgraded from XP to Vista or 7 by now. Even the entire IT department at work is now running on 7 and all the servers are running Server 08 R2. Also, the college I graduated from last Spring is imaging all the mandatory leased student laptops with Windows 7 this year by default.
Yes, but life outside the Microsoft campus is a bit different...

Re:Dvorak (Score:3, Funny)

by VGPowerlord ( 621254 ) writes: on Monday August 16, 2010 @01:52PM (#33265898)

I think it was John Dvorak who pontificated: "How long will IE be free? Until Netscape is out of business." He was right but it continued to be free
er... your statement basically says "he was right but he was wrong."
In this case, it can only be one or the other, and as per your latter statement, he happened to be wrong.

Re:It's hard to believe... (Score:3, Funny)

by Blakey Rat ( 99501 ) writes: on Monday August 16, 2010 @05:28PM (#33268468)

I'm sure I'll get flamed for quoting him, but I've always loved Joel Spolsky's description of Netscape's "testing methodology" [joelonsoftware.com]:
This poor company did an almost supernatural amount of damage to its reputation through their "testing" methodology:
1) when the programmers are about halfway done, release the software on the web without any testing.
2) when the programmers say they are done, release the software on the web without any testing.
3) repeat six or seven times.
4) call one of those versions the "final version"
5) release .01, .02, .03 versions every time an embarrassing bug is mentioned on c|net.

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