Microsoft Vista has a large pile of junk associated with it, Internet explorer is just a component of that. Even though you might block ie and say use firefox in Vista it is still on there and appears to be undelete able by design. You cannot easily remove it and if a windows program calls an internet link like say HP’s computer diagnostics do then ie is used. So much for your ‘choice and security’.
But is ie any good ? does it help make money ? no it does not even for HP. Imagine that you own a printer from HP it might be ‘running low’ on ink so HP have a thing in there diagnostics that can select your printer and go order there expensive new ‘genuine’ ink.
Alas in Vista - this is done all via ie, but alas ie decided that the hp site or the vendors site was doing something evil and so threw up a box that crashed the whole process. The result for you HP shareholders was no contract. A blog entry which you are reading and another notch that Microsoft is bad for you as both a user and for the shareholder.
The problem is that if ie decides your shop is naughty, or thinks you don’t have the most expensive useless ssl cert then clearly microsoft hate the whole concept of commerce and internet.
If HP (which you all know is a very small concern and listed as an american stock) is deemed by the great chair throwing overlords at Microsoft as an evil fraud site who amoung us or them should tell them.
Clearly ‘e-commerce is bad’ is the message Microsoft is telling both newbies and experts – if the monkey house was to purchase hp ink for all the printers in our bit of the zoo that bill would amount to £200.00, thankfully refilling both toner and inkjets means we can halve that bill.
I am quite sure HP and its resellers don’t mind the fact that Microsoft decided to curtail there profits after who cares it was only £ 200.00.
Yes ie is not configured (as Vista shipped it in whatever state that is), and third party tools do exist to delete ie in vista. However i deem our vista users not worth that much bother.
