Re: Question for George Hester...
From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 04/22/04
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 00:04:43 -0400
George Hester wrote:
> Many of us refuse to install IE 6 on our systems. The real issue
> here is the cumulative updates for IE 6 that came out in 2003. Again
> Microsoft is putting out cumulative updates for IE 6 and I would be
> very cautious installing any of them. The only one I know of that is
> "not so bad" is the October 2003 cumulative update. The ones in the
> beginning of 2003 are killers.
>
> Microsoft has issues with new browsers and old operating systems. I
> suspect the browsers that come with the operating system are safe.
> Now NT is version 2 so that's a dunce. You got to go to at least 5
> in that. Windows 98 came with IE 4 and I think support stops at IE 6
> in that one. Windows 98 SE that is. The first version may in fact
> stop at 5.5. Windows 95 don't even think about it.
>
> The point of this is to show how the versions of IE as they increase
> can become a hassle in older operating systems. It is a result of
> "integrating" the browser with the Shell. The failure of IE 6 in
> Windows 2000 is documented. Here is one of the publically accessible
> issues:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;821164
George, thanks for the link - I haven't seen that & will bookmark. Then
again, I don't play with XML files a lot, so I just haven't run into this
myself. I have many W2k/IE6 servers & workstations out there and so far
haven't run into a single problem I could isolate to IE6....
"If you enable the Thumbnail view on your Microsoft Windows 2000-based
computer, and then you open a folder that contains XML files, Windows
Explorer stops responding (hangs) when you click an XML file. "
>
> So yes I would use an operating system that comes with the .NET
> Framework, IE 6 and of course that stays away from cumulative updates
> for IE 6 from the first 6 months of 2003.
>
>> George, you once said, in reply to somwone who was
>> having problems with IE6 running under W2K, that W2K
>> just wasn't designed to run IE6.
>>
>> I tend to agree, having installed IE6 so .NET professional
>> could run here, I've had weird problems ever since, even after
>> uninstalling IE6 and rolling back to 5.5 SP2.
>>
>> But now, I need to be able to code in .NET again, and I wonder
>> if I should just bite the bullet and go to XP?
>>
>> Can you shed on any light on the IE6/W2K issue?
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