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Re: OT Re: Visual Studio 2005 *** MIKE'S RANT !!! ***
From:
"Peter M. Eggers" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Peter M. Eggers
Date:
Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:03:09 -0700
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On 9/13/07, Shawn Gordon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> At 10:02 AM 9/13/2007, serasoft wrote:
> >Mike's Rant:
> >
> >You know I have been a huge fan of MS until just recently.  I have been
> >having tremendous trouble with IE 6.0...freezes, aborts, etc.  I thought
> it
> >was just my machine but my other 2 machines are doing it too, one is
> Vista,
> >the other 2 are XP.  I am moving to Firefox for browsing and web stuff.
>
> Try Opera instead, their upcoming release is really impressive.  I
> think it was Stan Sieler that got me using it many years ago and they
> are the ones creating all the innovation that everyone else is copying.


Opera is small and  fast.  Good choice.  But Firefox with extensions is by
far the innovation leader!  Nothing is even close, and most people don't
even have the time it would take to try the hundreds of extensions
available.  Fairly easy to create your own custom extensions also.

If you have an old machine with limited memory and want speed, use Opera.

If you have a recent machine, want incredible functionality that is totally
customizable, get Firefox!   The latest version of Ubuntu pre-installs a
package called "nspluginwrapper" which allows 32bit Netscape for Windows
drivers to run on Linux.  Especially handy for getting Adobe's Flash player
which does not yet have a 64bit version for any platform, to work on 64bit
Firefox on 64bit Linux (take that MS serfs! ;-) LOL! ).

for your Office needs, just install OpenOffice www.openoffice.org works
> great.


Excellent idea!

>There is another issue I have with MS and that has to do with their
> >licensing of MS Office.  I have it on one machine but wanted to put it on
> my


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Regards,
>
> Shawn Gordon
> President
> theKompany.com
> www.thekompany.com
> www.mindawn.com
> 949-713-3276
>
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- Pete

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