[AccessD] Office 365

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Mar 24 13:14:23 CDT 2011


For those interested here is the latest specs on the current browser wars:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/ie9-vs-chrome-10-vs-firefox-4-rc-vs-opera
-1101-vs-safari-5-the-big-browser-benchmark/11890

Real benchmark testing.

Jim

 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 8:27 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [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
>
>   >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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