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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: Lead Head on 29 July 2005, 03:50

Title: IE7 copies Firefox and Opera and uses 50MEgs of ram for a single window
Post by: Lead Head on 29 July 2005, 03:50

Well it was only a matter of time before M$ copied Forefox and opera and increased the me usage, read dull story here http://www.flexbeta.net/main/printarticle.php?id=102 (http://www.flexbeta.net/main/printarticle.php?id=102)

Title: Re: IE7 copies Firefox and Opera and uses 50MEgs of ram for a single window
Post by: MrX on 29 July 2005, 04:55

omg, they stole opera's delete private data. what else did they steal?

Title: Re: IE7 copies Firefox and Opera and uses 50MEgs of ram for a single window
Post by: piratePenguin on 29 July 2005, 05:16

Quote from: MrX

omg, they stole opera's delete private data. what else did they steal?

Oh man, they stole nothing.

Shouldn't a piece of software be allowd to be inspired by another, to make itself better (EDIT: eek! self-developing software!)? I say yes. Patents say no. Mr X says no (apparently).

Fuck patents!

Title: Re: IE7 copies Firefox and Opera and uses 50MEgs of ram for a single window
Post by: worker201 on 29 July 2005, 08:03

At least it does transparent png now.  Although the author says it does it horribly.

Title: Re: IE7 copies Firefox and Opera and uses 50MEgs of ram for a single window
Post by: MrX on 29 July 2005, 19:23

Quote from: piratePenguin

Oh man, they stole nothing.

Shouldn't a piece of software be allowd to be inspired by another, to make itself better (EDIT: eek! self-developing software!)? I say yes. Patents say no. Mr X says no (apparently).

Fuck patents!

Not IE. almost anything but.

Title: Re: IE7 copies Firefox and Opera and uses 50MEgs of ram for a single window
Post by: cahult on 30 July 2005, 03:42

I agree with PP, fuck patents! Patents are the revenge of the weak and silly. Microsoft may not do anything right but at least in my book they can try anything. But that won

Title: Re: IE7 copies Firefox and Opera and uses 50MEgs of ram for a single window
Post by: Refalm on 30 July 2005, 18:00

I'm going to hate people that are going to tell me that Opera and Firefox are rip-offs off IE 7, like they have told me that KDE and Mac OS X are rip-offs off Luna (Windows XP interface).

Title: Re: IE7 copies Firefox and Opera and uses 50MEgs of ram for a single window
Post by: MarathoN on 31 July 2005, 14:08

That's just ridiculous, at least those programs were made by the company itself. :D

Title: Re: IE7 copies Firefox and Opera and uses 50MEgs of ram for a single window
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 31 July 2005, 16:54

I think these improvments in Microsoft Internet Explorer are long overdue, and as far as rip-offs go KDE borrows ideas from Mac OS and Windows just as OpenOffice has copied stuff from MS Office, I don't see any problem here.

As far as memory useage goes IE 7 does a lot worse than FireFox, in this example with both browsers displaying the same page IE uses 48.86MB while FF uses 35.3MB but this is only a beta relese of IE so this might improve some what.

MS still is doing thier best to push thier own products to the front, I wonder if the MSN search bar will do anything to improve MSN's market share of the search engines.

Title: Re: IE7 copies Firefox and Opera and uses 50MEgs of ram for a single window
Post by: MarathoN on 3 August 2005, 03:32

I can't be bothered to waste my time "securing" IE, I'm sticking with Firefox.

It does everything I want it to do, and it doesn't make me contract a zilliion worms/viruses blah blah blah :D

I decided not to use Opera because of the advertising, sure, it is very fast, but the advertising is just like nagging screens. :p