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Re: Building Windows 8

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Post by mayanksinghal » Tue, Aug 16, 2011, 9:22 AM UTC

mayanksinghal wrote: post #48

melling wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, as someone who only uses Windows when he has to, I'd say IE10 being the default browser is pretty exciting. Win7 ships with IE8 so people may or may not upgrade. With IE10, it's "HTML5" in full force. http://html5test.com/results.html

I fail to see your point. IE10 looks like a great improvement but only when compared to itself. Even current Tablet/Mobile browsers seem to have far greater support than what IE10 will give! Google Chrome 14.0.797 Score:329 Google Chrome 13.0.782 Score:329 Firefox 6.0a2 Score:312 Apple Safari 5.1 Score:293 Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 PP 2 Score:231 Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 PP 1 Score:125

Why the downvote?

Re: Building Windows 8

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Post by DonnyV » Tue, Aug 16, 2011, 8:00 PM UTC

nopassrecover wrote: post #45

DonnyV wrote: post #16

I really like the fact that they mentioned "performance" a bunch of times. Windows has needed some serious streamlining and performance tweaks for a while now.

Have you used Win7?

yes...still could be faster.

Re: Building Windows 8

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Post by melling » Thu, Aug 18, 2011, 11:45 AM UTC

mayanksinghal wrote: post #48

melling wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, as someone who only uses Windows when he has to, I'd say IE10 being the default browser is pretty exciting. Win7 ships with IE8 so people may or may not upgrade. With IE10, it's "HTML5" in full force. http://html5test.com/results.html

I fail to see your point. IE10 looks like a great improvement but only when compared to itself. Even current Tablet/Mobile browsers seem to have far greater support than what IE10 will give! Google Chrome 14.0.797 Score:329 Google Chrome 13.0.782 Score:329 Firefox 6.0a2 Score:312 Apple Safari 5.1 Score:293 Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 PP 2 Score:231 Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 PP 1 Score:125

IE10 isn't even close to done. At any rate, see the huge jump in HTML5 compatibility? IE raising the bar so much is a big win. In many corporations, IE is the only browser that people care about. Becoming more compliant means it's easier for developers to write "standard" web apps.