Anonymous 960b2f63afb6216575c10223cd19ca1c started this discussion 3 months (2008-09-07 14:38:25 UTC) ago:
The "settings" GUI box (and menu item) for MSIE (7, at least) is called "Internet Options". Not "Internet Explorer options" or simply "Options", but "Internet Options". As if the name of the Web browser, "Internet Explorer", wasn't already misleading enough…
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Anonymous d85da22cf0e9ff7f17bd55d3144c6aba replied with this 3 months (2008-09-07 17:18:19 UTC) ago, 3 hours later (#58,207):
I thought this too. Really sucks.
Anonymous 3bc2214372a618e592aa8bcfc436ba79 replied with this 3 months (2008-09-07 19:59:05 UTC) ago, 3 hours later (#58,251):
Microsoft is trying to make people think of them as some kind of default. When I'm asking people what browser they use (e-mail support), I often get things like "Windows" or "Microsoft". Or they don't know what a browser is.
Anonymous 960b2f63afb6216575c10223cd19ca1c (OP) replied with this 3 months (2008-09-07 20:01:00 UTC) ago, 2 minutes later (#58,252):
@58,251> When I'm asking people what browser they use (e-mail support), I often get things like "Windows" or "Microsoft". Or they don't know what a browser is.Those who answer "Windows" or "Microsoft"
do?!
Anonymous 3bc2214372a618e592aa8bcfc436ba79 replied with this 3 months (2008-09-07 20:20:30 UTC) ago, 20 minutes later (#58,260):
@58,252I don't know, they might be just guessing.
Anonymous 960b2f63afb6216575c10223cd19ca1c (OP) replied with this 3 months (2008-09-07 20:25:24 UTC) ago, 5 minutes later (#58,262):
Anonymous 3bc2214372a618e592aa8bcfc436ba79 replied with this 3 months (2008-09-07 20:50:25 UTC) ago, 25 minutes later (#58,269):
Anonymous 93a6d73c5681e25ec811c0fb89268539 replied with this 3 months (2008-09-08 01:30:27 UTC) ago, 5 hours later (#58,365):
Do they really need to help? I've was talking to someone's son the other day. He said his Father wanted to get his old computer (which was not plugged in) out of the house, soon, so that his new computer wouldn't get the old one's viruses. *face palm*
Anonymous 718f8a06688bdfd2f4f456382705ebd4 replied with this 3 months (2008-09-08 12:31:53 UTC) ago, 11 hours later (#58,475):
> The "settings" GUI box (and menu item) for MSIE (7, at least) is called "Internet Options". Not "Internet Explorer options" or simply "Options", but "Internet Options". As if the name of the Web browser, "Internet Explorer", wasn't already misleading enough…
The Internet Options control panel actually does control Internet Options, it's a front-end to the WinHTTP API in Windows. A good example of this is Google Chrome: it adopts its proxy settings from WinHTTP, you can't set custom proxy settings like you could in Firefox or Opera.
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