Europa Press News

The Federal Office of Information Security from Germany, warned Internet users to find an alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) ‘to ensure their security’, after Microsoft recognized that their browser failed in the recents attacks to Google’s sytems.

However, according BBC Channel, Microsoft rejected the advice of the Federal Office, saying that the risk to their users was low and by improving the security settings in Internet Explorer would solve the problems.

Nevertheless, German authorities said that even improving its security settings would make IE completely safe for Internet navigation. Microsoft spokesman in Germany, Thomas Baumgaertner, said the attacks were carried against Google by “highly motivated people, with very specific purposes”.

There was a time when I was completely in love with Internet Explorer -I was a begginer web programmer, eleven years a go, but for some reason, that beloved browser, which I constantly used for my Web applications to internal LAN users became a full nightmare on the real WWWorld. I truly don’t understand why the hell is needed so many browsers on the net, why the engine is not made ‘standard’ and then companies offering browsers differ for the added options (themes, plugins, etc…). That could be a dream, one single CSS, JS, HTML engine, just to make the life of the programmer ‘easier’.

I am glad of this new, I am sick of the constant effort of companies to get the ‘monopol’ of something, sick of the confussion and sick of the nightmares that every designer has to go in order to make a great site.

Hope we all follow that campaign. I, in my new project, will include the TOO COOL FOR INTERNET EXPLORER stick. Guys of Microsoft, please open your eyes… get real, stop creating silly tools in order to get onto the market fast and then try to fix your mistakes with patches and updates.

Too Cool for Internet Explorer

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