Comments on: IE 7 Update for Pirated Windows Users

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:12:43 +0000

IE 7 just provides a hassle for us web designers. Microsoft once again makes its own rules and demands the populis to abide by them. IE 7 is a piece of shit, when will Microsoft learn? And macs? Not exactly the best system to run games on…

By: O D-sign

O D-sign — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:40:51 +0000

Hey, save your breath and make the switch to Mac :-) I´m forced to work in Windows 2000 and XP at work but as soon as I’m home I switch on my Mac and all the frustration of crappy software and stone-age look and feel washes right of me!
I don´t understand how MS are going to deceive the great mass of people to make the fantastic Vista-switch “Buy our all new OS (and by the way, you´ll need a new computer to) for lot´s of $ and get just a new shiny coat on the same rubbish?”
Check out the new OSX 10.5 and you´ll understand what I mean…

By: gorkhali

gorkhali — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:52:22 +0000

i had pirated version of windowx xp service pack 2, it did not let me instal internet xplorer 7, it asked me to buy a legit version of xp

By: Bull

Bull — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:02:36 +0000

Firstly your statistics are probably skewed as propeller-heads are more likely to be using less main stream products. According to thecounter.com ±73% are using a Microsoft browser, but yes the uptake of IE7 (22%) is not high at this stage.

As far as Microsoft is concerned, it’s sad that we have to complain in your forum, where we will continue to be ignored, because Microsoft don’t and won’t listen.

They’ve surrounded themselves with an impenetrable barrier that makes the iron curtain look like a cashmere blanket.

Computers and in particular “Windows” have not delivered their original promises, and the world today is less efficient.

On the news, some Chinese person has “just invented” a WiFi radio. Fancy that a Wireless, Wireless! Wow, I bet that would impress Marconi.

Finally (for now anyway) I find it rather sad, that we have all been duped into chasing a brighter faster more hyper-inter-galactic “rainbow”, when we have not remediated the problems in any of the past versions.

By: Shand

Shand — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:15:59 +0000

I quickly uninstalled ie 7.0, when I found it installed untidily. known conflicted with Windows Movie Maker.

By: JavaZombie

JavaZombie — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:31:06 +0000

I work for a large corporation and the web based training they use throughout the company is not compatible with IE7 but works just fine with my browser of choice, Mozilla FireFox. The upgrade ran on my home PC but I have not launched IE since the install completed.

To get users to move to IE7 they should use the Mozilla engine and use one of the IE themes available for it.

By: Mandrake

Mandrake — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:30:29 +0000

Microsoft refers to poor people as “pirates” or “hackers”. The same people that don’t know the existence of free OS because of Microsoft’s own monopolist strategy. First they take away their freedom of choice and then their money. And if they are poor and don’t have money, they will prosecute them. Microsoft is the cancer of our society, but we finally have a cure, and it’s called open source. While Mozilla provides, Microsoft prosecutes.

By: FlyOnTheWall

FlyOnTheWall — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:06:58 +0000

Well, my default browser is Firefox, but I work for a corp that is forward thinking and would like to upgrade to IE 7 but a lot of in house web applications will not work with IE 7. I like the new interface. Took some getting use to but in the end I figured out exactly where everything was.

I think that IE 7 is slower than FireFox and tends to use a lot of memory at times. When comparing the two it always feels that Firefox is snappier then IE 7.

I agree with the other comments, about the average pirate has access to the latest and greatest when ever they want, but those that have not upgraded to SP2 because they have a pirated copy may not be necessarily true. I bet there are some companies out there running SP1 of Windows XP because they simply have not taken the time to upgrade, or have decided that what they are using is just fine.

By: Dan M

Dan M — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:46:59 +0000

I haven’t upgraded to IE7 (except on corporate machines where I have no choice) because it’s clunky and bizarre. For websites that require IE, I am happy in IE6, sans tabs. For everything else, Firefox seems to work…

By: da rule

da rule — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:14:05 +0000

Pirated windows is not a issue to update IE6 to IE7. This article title is not correct as it should be changed to “No more WGA for IE7″.
The reason that ppl dont upgraded is that IE7 is a bad product.