[AccessD] Office 365

The "normal" user doesn't know that there is an alternative.  I dislike IE specifically because of 
all the security crap.  I have never seen a more convoluted set of options for getting the browser 
to allow this, but don't allow that but allow stuff to run here but not there...

Give me a stinkin sandbox ...

I use DropMyRights, even on my own systems to run Firefox, Thunderbird and anything else that goes 
to the internet.  I use that on my wife's and children's machines as well.

One reason I use Firefox is that their response to security issues is pretty much "right now". 
Another reason I use FireFox is that (for awhile) the memory footprint of Firefox was much lower 
than IE.  It used to be that if you opened 15 different pages with IE you were hitting the page file.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 3/24/2011 8:47 AM, Martin Reid wrote:
> To the "normal" user the browser doesn't matter at all. They use whatever opens on the PC. They have no idea it's even a browser. Personally if it opens the BBC web site and a few others I don't care what it is. I can't understand all this "I prefer browser x over y" stuff.
>
> Martin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: 24 March 2011 12:28
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Office 365
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>   >Everyone has been given their first warning with IE9; which poses the question, "Which side of the technology divide are you on?"
>
> ROTFLMAO.  Firefox is making huge gains in the browser war because Microsoft has refused to allow XP users to use the latest IE version.  Microsoft claims that without the "latest technology" their browser cannot be as good as it needs to be.  Of course MS is trying to sell Windows 7 into the XP crowd.
>
> Notice FireFox works just fine with the XP crowd.
>
>   >which poses the question, "Which side of the technology divide are you on?"
>
> Uhh.. the Firefox side.  ;)  I pretty much have no use for IE unless I hit a site that I absolutely have to use and that site refuses to work with Firefox.  And guess what, with Firefox winning the browser war, more and more sites are dropping their "IE only" crapola.
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
> On 3/24/2011 2:14 AM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
>> I suspect that Microsoft will be become more resolute in it edict to
>> move its customers along into the acceptance of the new technology and
>> subsequently the purchase of its' new products. MS does not make good
>> money supporting old technologies... Everyone has been given their
>> first warning with IE9; which poses the question, "Which side of the
>> technology divide are you on?"
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart
>> McLachlan
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 2:50 PM
>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Office 365
>>
>> They are not forcing me towards anything, they are forcing me *away*
>> from Access as a FE for anything other than simple reporting.
>>
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