{"id":727,"date":"2009-02-25T10:43:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T15:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/?p=727"},"modified":"2009-02-25T11:30:18","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T16:30:18","slug":"ie8-continuing-a-long-tradition-of-sucking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2009\/ie8-continuing-a-long-tradition-of-sucking\/","title":{"rendered":"IE8, continuing a long tradition of sucking&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trying out IE8 RC1, it&#8217;s listed as <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=2072&#038;tag=nl.e539\">incompatible with URL&#8217;s like microsoft.com<\/a>, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/communities\/newsgroups\/en-us\/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsupdate&#038;tid=c58f8a08-de73-4f53-8920-3ef876e41300&#038;cat=en_US_56d1dd45-de9e-4fc5-9bc1-2d1d0de6daee&#038;lang=en&#038;cr=US&#038;sloc=&#038;p=1&#038;mid=c904d824-0780-40c5-990e-8e6483d73d98\">Windows Update<\/a>.  Meanwhile IE8 updates are only available through Windows Update.  And the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/IE8-RC1-on-XP-SP3-Handle-with-Care-103036.shtml\">uninstall doesn&#8217;t work in XP SP3<\/a> &#8211; I don&#8217;t get a &#8220;remove&#8221; button at all.  You can&#8217;t get rid of it, and you can&#8217;t patch it.  Thanks for completely breaking Windows, Microsoft.  Wow, the incompetence is staggering.  Fortunately Windows is becoming more and more of a bad memory every day.  The kind you can eventually completely black out, with any luck&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, FF3 continues as the champion workhorse, and running Google Chrome in XP is like taking a Ferrari for a spin&#8230; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\/intl\/en\/linux.html\">soon available<\/a>&#8221; on linux&#8230; and don&#8217;t miss the geeky-great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/googlebooks\/chrome\/index.html\">chrome cartoon<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying out IE8 RC1, it&#8217;s listed as incompatible with URL&#8217;s like microsoft.com, including Windows Update. Meanwhile IE8 updates are only available through Windows Update. And the uninstall doesn&#8217;t work in XP SP3 &#8211; I don&#8217;t get a &#8220;remove&#8221; button at all. You can&#8217;t get rid of it, and you can&#8217;t patch it. Thanks for completely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tricks-tips-tools"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M11L-bJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}