A crucial inquiry

[Rasputin]

actually i only got IE 6 beta version is final version out yet ??

[Spekter]

Are you using the Forum Jump go button at the bottom of the page or are you using your browser's back function? Back will reload a cached version of the page so nothing will change. Using the go button causes the page to reload from Apolyton with updated info.

[Bereta_Eder]

I click on the titles on the top of the page (apolyton forums>miscellaneous>apolyton/community)

[tniem]

Originally posted by Rasputin
actually i only got IE 6 beta version is final version out yet ??

No only the beta version is out. That is what I am using.

My understanding is that IE6 is going to be released with Microsoft Windows XP and not before that time. They will bundle the two and it will be all a part of their "innovation" thing.

But no matter my feelings on MS I have to admit that their browser works and that is why I am using it.

[Urban Ranger]

The trouble with using IE6 is there are all sorts of nasty surprises waiting to spring on you when you least suspect it. Also given the facts that a) it's bloated and b) it's not standard compliant should steer people to other browsers.

If you don't like Mozilla there's always Opera.

[Rasputin]

i like IE , always does what i expect it to

I thought microsoft got in trouble for bundling operating sytstems and Internet browsers in one package as in Win 95 IE 4.0 .. didnt the courst force them to separate the two ..

If so what will happen with win XP and IE6.0 ??

[Urban Ranger]

Even when it crashes Windoze?

Nobody wants XP anyway you need such a powerful computer just to run it. Which reminds me of the saying, "Which Andy giveth, Bill taketh away."

You can't get truer than that.

[tniem]

Originally posted by Rasputin
i like IE , always does what i expect it to

I thought microsoft got in trouble for bundling operating sytstems and Internet browsers in one package as in Win 95 IE 4.0 .. didnt the courst force them to separate the two ..

If so what will happen with win XP and IE6.0 ??

The courts have ruled that that is illegal and violates the Sherman Acts because they are using a monopoly to create another monopoly. The question is punishment.

The Jackson court ruled to break the company up. Now that an appeals court has undid that order, it very likely that MS will escape with little punishment.

As for whether or not MS will continue bundle their operating system and browser, they will. In fact, when Balmer was asked what by law he feels MS can bundle with their OS, he said anything. So they still feel they have committed no wrong and we will continue getting IE, Windows Media Player, and other programs bundled with their OS.

[Eli]

In the old forums this option never worked for me, and I was a very happy man when I saw that it works in the new one.

[Urban Ranger]

tniem,

It's anybody's guess what's going to happen with the M$ case. It could range from very little happening to M$ to punishment more severe than before. There's an article in the Christian Science Monitor yesterday discussing Dubya's anti-trust policy; they expect it wouldn't be changed much from the Clinton years.

Still, even if the government case isn't going anywhere fast, there are still civil and class action suites that can now go ahead because the appeal court found Miscro$oft is guilty of anti-trust violations.

[Dr Strangelove]

The colored envelopes work fine for me.

I can't get too upset about the Microsoft case. The major plaintiff, Netscape, merged with AOL, which may eventually dominate the internet in a way far more detrimental to the public good than Microsoft's dominance of the operating system market. I know, I've been an AOL customer.

[Winston]

I'm in the same situation as paiktis - there's just no rhyme or reason to the colouring of thread icons anymore. When I first log on, a certain number of them are red (the ones with new posts since my last visit), but after checking even just one thread, hitting the back button (or Alt+<-) and then pressing refresh (F5), they're all yellow.

Now under the old system, a thread you'd read with no new posts would be dark blue (as opposed to the other, light blue threads) - and it would stay dark blue until there was a new post to it, no matter if you hit refresh (F5) - or even logged of and on again hours later. That was a very userfriendly way of keeping track of what threads to check for new posts.

I noticed this backwards step right from the time of the forum upgrade, but it's still annoying... I guess we'll just have to learn to deal with it now that we got such an otherwise immaculate upgrade with many improvements.

Or is there some hope of the admins employing a colour code for the threads a la the old one?

[Urban Ranger]

What are you talking about?

In uBB there were also these coloured envelopes with the same colour code system.


Doc,

What are you talking about? There's no plaintiff in the M$ anti-trust case. It started as "The Government of United States and 19 States vs Microsoft Corp," with some states dropping out later.

Also I don't see anybody has the ability to dominate either the Internet or the World Wide Web. If anybody, that's what M$'s trying with ".NET."

[Spekter]

paiktis22:

Do you have cookies disabled? I think they are used to keep track of the posts you have read.

[Winston]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
What are you talking about?

In uBB there were also these coloured envelopes with the same colour code system.

I'm well aware of that, but I'm talking about the colour of the thread subject itself (the text). It would change from light blue to dark blue once you read the thread. Only when new posts were added to the thread would it turn light blue again.

I'd like to see this feature carried over to the new system. As it is now, if you refresh the page, all thread envelopes turn yellow so it's basically useless other than when you first log on.