For other/personal use? because:
"The most striking difference between this browser release and the IEs of old is the new user interface. It’s sleek and minimal, and — what are those? — it now has the inverted top-tabs, which are quickly becoming common.... ...“The browser is the stage and the backdrop, but the website is the star of the show,” Microsoft general manager of Internet Explorer Dean Hachamovitch tells Wired. “We think the browser should totally take a back seat to the sites.” Freeing up those extra pixels with a minimal top bar is a path others in the industry are taking. Chrome shipped with the tabs-on-top look two years ago, Mozilla has adopted it for Firefox 4, and Safari has flirted with in the past. Opera offers a few different choices for where to put your tabs..." (from Wired: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/09/internet-explorer-9-beta-drops-its-lean-fast-and-modern ) and performance improvements and web standards support for friends and family that insist on using IE... This might bring IE up to where the others are right now. I do believe that it will then stay there for a couple of years and then make another leap to present day again, and I do not believe I will start using it by choice, but I know those 60% out there that do use IE only will be happy and that makes me happy... --Michael T. Bendorf-- Technology Administrator A-C Central C.U.S.D. #262 217.476.3312 ext. 2019 DID #: 217.476.6019 Cellular: 217.306.6824 "I'm trying to teach myself to ask the same questions that you do during your lectures so that I do not need you any more." A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. "The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the enormous flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers using poor adaptations of incomplete ideas." - Alan Kay On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Ben Story <ben.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Call me cynical, but why should I get excited about version 9.x when I have SaaS (aka Cloud, aka Web Apps) applications that won't work with anything beyond 6.x? > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Michael Bendorf <bendo...@a-ccentral.us> wrote: >> >> We have to wait for the San Fran event later today before we can dl the full beta i believe. >> the test drive is what I have been playing with, but i'm anxious to try out some things other than their canned show off pieces. >> >> Has anyone seen what time we are /supposed/ to get access?? >> >> --Michael T. Bendorf-- >> Technology Administrator >> A-C Central C.U.S.D. #262 >> 217.476.3312 ext. 2019 >> DID #: 217.476.6019 >> Cellular: 217.306.6824 >> >> "I'm trying to teach myself to ask the same questions that you do during your lectures so that I do not need you any more." >> >> A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. >> >> "The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the enormous flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers using poor adaptations of incomplete ideas." >> >> - Alan Kay >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Tim Ferguson <t...@ccs135.com> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks!! >>> >>> Tim >>> >>> >>> Joseph Simshauser <sims...@stclair.k12.il.us> 9/15/2010 9:55 AM >>> >>> http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/ >>> >>> Vista SP2 or greater OS I believe... >>> >>> Joseph Simshauser >>> sims...@stclair.k12.il.us >>> Technology Department >>> Cahokia Unit School District 187 >>> http://cusd187.stclair.k12.il.us/techweb/ >>> >>> "History is much like an Endless Waltz. The three beats of War, Peace, and Revolution continue on forever." >>> >>> On 9/15/2010 9:51 AM, Tim Ferguson wrote: >>> >>> Can you share where we need to go to download the beta, please? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Tim >>> >>> >>> "Bob Schmidt" <rschm...@d94.org> 9/15/2010 8:53 AM >>> >>> I'm just starting to roll out ie8 :) >>> ________________________________ >>> From: tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org [mailto: tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org] On Behalf Of Michael Bendorf >>> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 8:46 AM >>> To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List >>> Subject: [tech-geeks] IE9 >>> >>> Is anyone excited about IE9? >>> >>> I played with a few previews and am downloading the beta later today... >>> --Michael T. Bendorf-- >>> Technology Administrator >>> A-C Central C.U.S.D. #262 >>> 217.476.3312 ext. 2019 >>> DID #: 217.476.6019 >>> Cellular: 217.306.6824 >>> >>> "I'm trying to teach myself to ask the same questions that you do during your lectures so that I do not need you any more." >>> >>> A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. >>> >>> "The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the enormous flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers using poor adaptations of incomplete ideas." >>> >>> - Alan Kay >>> >>> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >>> >>> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >> >> >> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > > > > -- > -- > Ben Story > CCSP, CCNA, CCNA Wireless, CCDA > ben.st...@gmail.com > > "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. -- Abraham Lincoln > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |
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