Monday, December 04, 2006

Can I go back?

When Internet Explorer 7 came out I decided to give it a try. For sure it's better than IE6 - I especially the tabs which makes much easier to move from one page to the other.

The problem in being on the cutting edge is that there are still some apps that don't fully support (recognize? since it should be backwards compatible) IE7. Since I have to use some of them regularly, I uninstalled IE7 and I went back to the old interface.

After this backwards move I start having problems with several pages, one of them being Blogger (that with some travel in the middle are the main reasons of my writing hiatus). The problem in the Blogger page was on the redirection of pages after login. It would say 'Click here to continue' and I would go for a GO TO loop ride. Today I had to buy tickets online and as I was almost in the last stages of a long process the page gave me an error and I saw myself again stuck.

That was it! I immediately upgraded again to IE7 and my life in the last couple of hours has been so much better! Is this some kind of Microsoft dirty trick, to make sure that if you tasted the honey you get stuck? Or is just one of the countless Microsoft bugs?

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