Today like the rest of the free internet using world, I installed Internet Explorer 7. Yes it looks good, is more standards compliant, is (supposedly) more secure, blah blah blah. I have installed IE7 in various incarnations 4 times (on this machine) over the past few months...the installation routine is just simply ridiculous; total elapsed time from the point I started today's installation routine, just over ten minutes. To install an f'ing web browser. That's one (1) uninstallation routine that runs to get rid of previous versions, two (2) reboots needed to complete installation...that is 1 uninstallation and 2 reboots too many in my opinion, not to mention that after the first reboot completes your machine is unusable as the installation and configuration routines both run before Explorer is launched. Hum a tune, twiddle your thumbs, fold laundry, whatever...sit and wait 10 minutes for ~14 megs of software to install on your machine.
Both Firefox and Opera install in under a minute, and are ready to go as soon as you are, all the while leaving Explorer free for you to do other things should the routines take longer than expected for some reason. Yes, of course I do realize why IE necessitates the above mentioned headaches (*cough* deeply embedded in Windows *cough*) but this is 2006 for crying out loud. Microsoft, please trim down the exciting-as-watching-paint-dry installation routine of IE.
Posted
Oct 19 2006, 01:54 AM
by
Jayson Knight