{"id":6611,"date":"2013-11-30T10:49:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T15:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=6611"},"modified":"2013-12-01T19:26:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T00:26:57","slug":"microsoft-fiddles-with-google-while-ie-11-burns-its-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/microsoft-fiddles-with-google-while-ie-11-burns-its-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft fiddles with Google while IE 11 burns its users"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"internet_explorer11\"<\/a>It’s one thing when a product works like it’s supposed to and a majority of users prefer it; it’s quite another thing when products turn off their users because they don’t work right (IE 11) or aren’t want users want (Windows 8.1).<\/p>\n

While Microsoft tries to goad Google into a childish fight with it’s ridiculous “Scoogled” anti-Google campaign, Google does the right thing and ignores Microsoft. Google’s products work, and Google’s users are generally happy with its products. Instead of worrying about what Microsoft is doing, Google is busy improving its products, listening to what consumers want, and making products that just plain work the way they should.<\/p>\n

Steve Jobs used used to use an altered quote of T.S. Eliot “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal…”: Jobs used to say…”good artists copy; great artists steal”. Maybe Microsoft should start copying Google instead of bashing them – then perhaps they’d give consumers not only products they want, but products that work.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 11, claiming it was “30% faster”. They didn’t say what it was faster than, but it’s provably not faster than Chrome. Now it comes to light that IE 11 doesn’t even work correctly for a lot of users as illustrated by this article from Infoworld:<\/p>\n

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\u00a0IE11 leaves Flash media hanging on YouTube, more major sites<\/h3>\n

If you’re having problems getting Flash sites to display properly in Internet Explorer 11 — whether you’re running Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 — you aren’t alone. The support forums are clogged with complaints, citing different symptoms, from sites (including YouTube) that don’t render properly and\/or freeze completely to BSODs to repeated, bogus exhortations to download the latest Flash player. Microsoft hasn’t come up with an explanation, much less a fix. The IE patch delivered on Black Tuesday earlier this month was supposed to help, but it doesn’t. The only solution that seems to work: Use Firefox or Chrome.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest at Infoworld.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s one thing when a product works like it’s supposed to and a majority of users prefer it; it’s quite another thing when products turn off their users because they don’t work right (IE 11) or aren’t want users want (Windows 8.1). While Microsoft tries to goad Google into a childish fight with it’s ridiculous “Scoogled” anti-Google campaign,\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,1426,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6627,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6611\/revisions\/6627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}