I used to like Internet Explorer, I really did. I thought that perhaps Microsoft had created at least one good product. But alas, I was wrong. I used to have an extremely slow modem, and switching off of AOL and onto IE opened my eyes to a world where you could get kicked off-line without losing your place or where you could switch to Netscape anytime you want. But since I upgraded my computer from a Performa to a G4 I have come to realize that IE is a piece of $h!t. With my new internal modem (sigh... no cable modem yet) I usually get a pretty high dial-up, but with IE my Internet is at times lightning fast and at others maddeningly slow, not depending on the dial-up. My theory is that IE is dumb and doesn't know how to utilize that speed. Now a PC luser would argue this: that it is my G4's fault, not IE's. That's impossible, because I sporadically switch to Netscape, and things are much faster and more reliable there (I'm no big fan of Netscape, but its a heck of a lot better than IE). The PC luser's next argument: "IE is only slow on the Mac version." Also impossible. One, I have used IE on Windows 95 and Windows ME, and let me tell you, the problems were ten times as worse. I'm not even going to go into them. And two, even if it is the Mac version, who still made it? Microsoft, duh! It's still their fault. Yes, unlike most of Microsoft's products, IE does look pretty nice. Bet lets face it: Microsoft only puts out crummy software (and hardware in the X-Box's case) to save money and give off the appearance that they know what they're doing and IE is no exception.
