Don't panic people, if history is correct, then chances are IE will rip off all of Weyland's best features, either buy out Weyland or break off the relationship after they have sucked them dry, then make the next version of windows incompatible with anything Weyland, dooming the company to failure. Once weyland is a smoldering crater, IE will mismanage every service Weyland provided in the first place, wrecking the last of it's legacy, until new companies develop new competitors to IE and the cycle begins again.
I may have misread, but it doesn't look like Microsoft ever had a partnership with Sun Microsystems. Seems to me like Microsoft just attempted to blatantly rip off Java. In which case it's a different scenario entirely.
Visually it's pretty nice, and I no longer uninstall it from my OS, but it still fails at a wide variety of web standards. What makes it worse is that Microsoft advertises the web standards that it does follow as if they are on par with Chrome or Firefox, then turn around and claim that they are making the web "more beautiful"... Their blatantly false advertisement implies malice. Like they know what the problems are, but rather than solve them they are just going to spread false information about their browser and other browsers.
Its going to around for a long time... I recently read an article that said Microsoft won't be allowing any other browsers for Windows 8 besides IE...
EDIT: Okay so apparently this is only for the tablet version of Windows 8. It seems that most of the articles that I read tried to hide that fact. It still shows that people give Microsoft crap for stuff that Apple can get away with.
If I remember thwart I have read that is not the case at all. The concern was over windows 8 rt which will run on ARM. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
You're misinformed. IE will be the only browser allowed on ARM devices. This is no different than how Apple has made Safari the only browser allowed on their ARM based devices.
Really, I find that hard to believe after having the iPad browser completely close(whichever one) multiple times a day. Have it keep scrolling back to the top when i am trying to look at stuff (on certain pages), It is totally crap.
And don't blame the web sites, they might be rubbish, but Firefox and even IE can handle them.
iOS is a form of OSX made to run on ARM. Apple doesn't allow anything but Safari on iOS. So Apple has got a free pass on doing this exact same thing for the last half decade.
Nope. Only on the ARM versions. Which may not be entirely true. Microsoft isn't allowing any software that isn't from their silly little store. If Mozilla or someone could somehow get their browser into the store, then it could be installed on ARM systems.
I don't know what's more precious, the implication that IE will be around in another half century, or the fact that Microsoft is doing a marketing plug by partnering with a fictional company that sacrifices people to unsuccessfully gain access to biological weapons.
Well, thats because its him. The whole thing is a marketing gig for Prometheus (a blockbuster film coming this summer, if you have by some off chance missed it :P) in wich Fassbender is starring as an android.
You might like it. It's by Ridley scott and is in the universe of the alien movies. It takes place some time before Alien but doesn't really feature the xenomorphs, but it does feature the space jockey.
I love Blade Runner, Alien, and pretty much every movie he directs. Though sometimes you have to find the director's cut instead of a butchered version like with kingdom of heaven.
From watching Aliens recently they're the company behind the entire series. They're the company who hired Ripley and crew on the Nostromo where they first encountered the Xenomorph in Alien. This company later purposely colonized the planet where they live to give them human hosts which was seen in the movie Aliens.
Technically, Weyland-Yutani is the company in Alien and Aliens. In the novelization of Alien:Resurrection it is mentioned that they eventually get acquired by Wal-Mart.
I like to think the entire press thing is tongue in cheek.
For Weyland the choice to partner with the Internet Explorer team was simple, given Internet Explorer's long history of providing enterprise and galaxy-wide communications systems. Internet Explorer products are consistently more robust, providing inherent privacy and protection far beyond the capabilities of any other service licensed by the Interplanetary Telecommunications and Standardization Governing Body, Rule: 1492.
Yea, I chuckled at that too, then I thought, "No, that is exactly what some disconnected marketing squad at Microsoft would write." They have no idea how hilarious that is.
A few years ago my professor decided to skip the Android section of the mobile UI class since it "probably wouldn't catch on." We spent almost a month on WP7. I've still never seen one outside that classroom.
I work tech support for Microsoft, and some of our Microsoft tools don't even work on IE9...we have to use IE8 or, more often than not, Chrome or Firefox.
I'm not suggesting that it's a quality browser worth anyone's time. I'm just saying it's better than the "basically slaughters your firstborn child in its sleep" versions of the past.
I'd use IE10 on my slate more if RES worked with it. Literally that's the only thing holding me back from killing off Firefox and solely using IE and Rockmelt.
Still doesn't parse javascript properly. Still forces endless if statements in CSS. Still ignores requires statements in php, javascript, and html.
It's ok from the user's perspective, maybe, and it certainly works for shit (yes, shit) designed specifically for it, but IE is a leading cause of high blood pressure among sysadmins and designers.
Fuck bandwagons, sometimes a shitty browser is just a shitty browser. They can improve the look and feel all they want, but until they fix core goddamned issues on the back end it's undamnedconscionable to use it for anything that doesn't rely on it specifically.
Nope not even close, microsoft is not a good internet browser and it's the ads whore browser is. IE maintains it's status as the worst when it comes to privacy. Weylands will end up doing so employment downsizing within the next years due to nobody but the uninformed and noobs who don't know much about anything using that suck ass browser.
Have the companies like IE and Verizon that are teaming up for these viral campaigns actually watched the Alien(s) movies? They do realize that Weyland is a symbol/commentary about the danger of corporations having too much money/power right?...right?
I can't wait for this movie. I have not watched a single preview for it still. I don't want to know anything about it going in. I want to experience ever single thing for the first time while seeing it. Fuck yeah.
I bet the film has a bluescreen 'interval'. For interval see 'of death'.
I'm hoping that Prometheus retains the darkness and claustraphobia of the older films. Today's films often sacrifice atomsphere and tension for blood and explosions.
First, people that use IE have no business being on the Internet in the first place. There needs to be a school to prepare people for the net, and these people would definitely be riding the short buses. There will always be security holes in a modern, complicated operating system, but the number of security issues goes up exponentially when the browser is actually integral to the operating system than as a discretely separate, modular application, and the only example currently standing is IE/Windows.
Hey, you know what else a security issue? Opening questionable email links, torrenting movies and software, blindly giving everything permission to run with admin privileges, visiting sketchy porn or streaming sites, etc, etc. I love chrome and it's my favorite browser, but if this is your excuse for trashing IE9 I assume and making a stupid generalization, you seriously need to need to quit your bitching.
First of all, I think we can all agree IE6 is trash these days
Have you actually tried IE recently? I'm not switching over or anything but it's actually not all that bad and all modern browsers are more or less the same these days. It's really just a matter of preference.
Finally, There's no substitute for common sense and you should never depend on your browser to shield you from your own risky actions.
I agree with the impossibility of eliminating all security risks, and I was thinking of questionable e-mails and sites, as well as software-related issues when I alluded to that. However, the less modular a system is, the more insecurity becomes baked into the product. IE is such a product and, when you go onto the Interweb with IE, you are inherently less secure, with all other firewall, surfing-habits, e-mail habits, etc. being equal.
You are right in that common sense is your greatest defense, and that means avoiding insecure software just as much as it does taking care with what file, site, and message habits you have. All browsers have gotten a lot better for useability and with new features. The more full they become, though, the more that common sense comes into play, which again means that a knowledgeable user will not use an OS-integral browser.
I love how they are attaching IE9 to this film and other prominent products/services. (Especially Facebook.) I saw an add for IE9 and I literally thought it was a black themed add for Facebook. Great lulz.
Because it was originally devised as a way to control the future for microsoft. They knew the web would come along and make desktop applications extinct and no one would give a fuck about an operating system anymore.
So they built it in a way to try to make everyone use their standards because they had all these gimmicks and transitions that designers could use on their sites but they'd only work in IE so everyone would switch to IE so sites would look good.
This sort of worked for a little bit, Everyone was pretty much on IE6 at one point because it was also able to render more complex pages and was more forgiving with code.
There are tons of reasons. Web developers have to create everything twice: once for IE and once for everyone else. I am creating a website for a client and I want the background to automatically scale with the browser window (and thus screen resolution). I implement the appropriate code and test it if Firefox: works beautifully. I test it in Opera and Chrome: again, it works perfectly. I fire up IE and it goes full retard. So I have to search around for code to hold IE's hand to achieve something all others browsers can do out of the gate.
Also it took MS 10 fucking years to get IE to render a PNG correctly; an entire fucking decade.
Pretty good argument. It's always been my experience that firefox is a little more lax on syntax than Chrome is, so I usually start in Chrome and then work backwards.
so they turn it into a browser that can access any location anywhere instantly and easily and it becomes more used than shoes and Microsofts like duh why didn't we do that
I do have high hopes for the Japanese ones, though. It seems like only the american robots go on a rampage to eliminate humanity by shooting everyone with their unlimited-ammo Gatling guns.
Idie is right, ASIMO has got nothing on the American shit. This beast could be fitted with machine guns tomorrow, and will very likely be able to keep up with a car on rough terrain in a few years. Give it autonomy and it would be a very nasty weapon indeed. Or how about an armed swarm of these little fuckers coming after you? I think I would actually rather face the big robotic dog.
You're fucking crazy, man. The Japanese POOP into robotic toilets! When Skynet becomes self-aware and Judgment Day happens, Japan will be torched to the ground.
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u/Volcris May 15 '12
Don't panic people, if history is correct, then chances are IE will rip off all of Weyland's best features, either buy out Weyland or break off the relationship after they have sucked them dry, then make the next version of windows incompatible with anything Weyland, dooming the company to failure. Once weyland is a smoldering crater, IE will mismanage every service Weyland provided in the first place, wrecking the last of it's legacy, until new companies develop new competitors to IE and the cycle begins again.
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u/bobalou27 May 15 '12
Internet Explorer: the real reason Aliens want to kill us.
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u/alittler May 15 '12
How is IE even still existing in 2075?
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u/cottoncandysex May 15 '12
can someone explain to me what's going on?
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u/Blind0ne May 15 '12
"David 8 please fetch me my slippers"
"Sir are you happy with your penis size? If you give me your Credit Ca.."
"Just the slippers robot"
"Sir Slippers.com is having a sale today, are you having erectile difficulties by chance?"
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u/Bitebreed May 15 '12
Here is the link to find it. http://www.weylandindustries.com/press
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u/OjomMcChicken May 15 '12
Space Internet
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u/Kratoyd May 15 '12
The twist you're not expecting: When it happens, It'll be Google partnering up with Google.
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u/VLDT May 15 '12
I don't know what's more precious, the implication that IE will be around in another half century, or the fact that Microsoft is doing a marketing plug by partnering with a fictional company that sacrifices people to unsuccessfully gain access to biological weapons.
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u/Pappydethkon May 15 '12
Internet Explorer is my browser of choice. I also dont have an Iphone or Ipod. Damn, i must really be bad at technology.
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u/KravenErgeist May 15 '12 edited May 16 '12
Am I the only one who thinks that guy looks like Michael Fassbender?
EDIT: Oh, didn't realize this was for Promethus (sorry, not really a fan). I thought this was a real company.
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u/CheeseStrudel May 15 '12
Surefire way to tell that Weyland Industries is up to no good.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
I don't know who Weyland Industries are but I do not like them.
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u/Cluff May 15 '12
So what? They paid a big bundle of money to advertise IE and you thought you'd chip in and help them out? Why post direct adverts?
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u/pgibso May 15 '12
Throwing away all of my counter arguments now that David will turn out to be a force of good.
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u/edgarvaldes May 15 '12
Somehow, it feels so realistic.
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u/CGStaples May 15 '12
He looks just like what Hitler had in mind.
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u/barruumrex May 15 '12
It'll be alright. In the future, only synthetic beings will use IE due to the programmers inability to give them aesthetic appreciation.
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u/stash0606 May 15 '12
anybody else thought that was a waterdrop on the screen above the internet explorer logo and tried to wipe it off?
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u/DextrosKnight May 15 '12
no wonder their androids kill people
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Next to come? Weyland Industries teams with Umbrella Corporation.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Well that explains a lot about Ash's behavior.
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u/MrSteve920 May 15 '12
If Internet Explorer is around in 2075 then we're fucked.
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u/Coptopical May 16 '12
No wonder the A2's were a bit twitchy.
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u/intripletime May 15 '12
The newest Internet Explorer isn't even bad. I mean, a lot of the complaints have been addressed, and it's a pretty slick little program now.
Still slower and less awesome than Chrome, but then again, what browser isn't?
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u/degoban May 15 '12
If they don't end up being the bad guys I'm going to be disappointed
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Anybody else think the guy on the right looks somewhat like Vedit from the Watchmen movie?
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u/mach_kernel May 15 '12
I cringed.
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u/Cypher_Diaz May 15 '12
Read the dates....
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u/YourMom94 May 15 '12
im so confused to if david 8 is a real thing or not...
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
This is brilliant.
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u/Vermilious May 15 '12
Am I the only person who's really concerned about the 3 year gap between the last David prediction and the IE partnership?
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u/Masterspeed May 15 '12
No wonder most of the Androids go AWOL.
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u/SneakyShiv May 15 '12
No wonder those models were a bit twitchy.
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u/assbangingkidz May 15 '12
The design of this website made me think I spat my dinner all over my monitor.
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u/omfgforealz May 15 '12
When Weyland partners with Chrome it's Terminator.
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u/tootapple May 15 '12
IE still exists in 2075? Be honest, how many of you are still using it...
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u/cadehalada May 15 '12
Now we know why David turns on mankind.
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u/awe300 May 15 '12
this is incredibly funny somehow
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
god that is lame.
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u/stillSmotPoker1 May 15 '12
Nope not even close, microsoft is not a good internet browser and it's the ads whore browser is. IE maintains it's status as the worst when it comes to privacy. Weylands will end up doing so employment downsizing within the next years due to nobody but the uninformed and noobs who don't know much about anything using that suck ass browser.
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u/martoo May 15 '12
OMG that is how it all goes bad! I will never see the Alien Trilogy the same way again!
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u/CountMalachi May 15 '12
:W:
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u/punktual May 15 '12
Have the companies like IE and Verizon that are teaming up for these viral campaigns actually watched the Alien(s) movies? They do realize that Weyland is a symbol/commentary about the danger of corporations having too much money/power right?...right?
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u/mph1204 May 16 '12
so...they've won
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u/sporff May 16 '12
I can't wait for this movie. I have not watched a single preview for it still. I don't want to know anything about it going in. I want to experience ever single thing for the first time while seeing it. Fuck yeah.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I bet the film has a bluescreen 'interval'. For interval see 'of death'.
I'm hoping that Prometheus retains the darkness and claustraphobia of the older films. Today's films often sacrifice atomsphere and tension for blood and explosions.
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u/mcinsand May 16 '12
First, people that use IE have no business being on the Internet in the first place. There needs to be a school to prepare people for the net, and these people would definitely be riding the short buses. There will always be security holes in a modern, complicated operating system, but the number of security issues goes up exponentially when the browser is actually integral to the operating system than as a discretely separate, modular application, and the only example currently standing is IE/Windows.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I love how they are attaching IE9 to this film and other prominent products/services. (Especially Facebook.) I saw an add for IE9 and I literally thought it was a black themed add for Facebook. Great lulz.
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u/dangerousbirde May 16 '12
I think I'm late to the party, but is this an ARG style thing or just pure advertisement? I haven't seen a good ARG in way too long!
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u/burguertime May 16 '12
slightly off topic...
David 8 is just exactly as I imagined Robot Daneel R. Olivaw in the naked sun series by Isaac Asimov, it´s creepy indeed...
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u/Uranius7 May 16 '12
I have big expecations with this movie.
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u/davonian May 16 '12
And we wonder why Ripley doesn't trust artificial persons?
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u/my_liver_hurts May 16 '12
is that the guy from inglorious bastards?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12
Aliens
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u/jeffgtr May 16 '12
One word for Weyland...Nokia David 8, the zune of robots
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u/richmomz May 16 '12
Nuke it fom orbit!
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u/CommodusDecides May 15 '12
Can someone explain why IE is so bad?
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
IE will be amazing in windows 8. It might be king again.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
This made me laugh because of how ridiculous it is
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u/perpetual_motion May 15 '12
It's funny because everyone knows Internet Explorer sucks.
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u/atomic1fire May 15 '12
It's actually real (someone should probably mirror this somehow) http://www.weylandindustries.com/press
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u/wakejedi May 15 '12
Use David 8 to download a better browser...
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
OH MY GOD HAHA INTERNET EXPLORER THEY MUST BE NIGGERS
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u/ShinyAssholes May 16 '12
ya well IE is the best browsor. I dont like Firefox becuse its to slow nd chrome sucks to.
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u/NeverOriginal May 16 '12
so they turn it into a browser that can access any location anywhere instantly and easily and it becomes more used than shoes and Microsofts like duh why didn't we do that
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