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Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 - Notes & Downloading
Before you commit yourself to Ie5 and download it through this
page (and I'm sure you will if you haven't got it), this is my experience:
The number of new or developing clients I
have in the city and elsewhere have had such repeated problems that it is
becoming really, really annoying to me. Of course I refer to Internet problems using
everything or anything other than Microsoft Internet Explorer.
"Oh your problem is the Dial-up
Adapter", or "You'll have to disable your Network card" are just
2 of the innumerable pieces of stupid advice given to clients who are using
other browsers. For pity's sake, what good is the damned PC without it's
dial-up adapter and if it's network card is disabled and it's removed from the
network.
It is also CLEARLY obvious that a PC using
a MSDOS element (Microsoft), Windows95 (Microsoft) and the leading Word
processing and Spreadsheets (Word, Excel from Microsoft) and any popular form
of BASIC (Microsoft), IS GOING TO WORK BETTER WITH a Microsoft INTERNET BROWSER.
Further to this is the furore
surrounding Internet Explorer 5 and the US Government litigation against
Microsoft. You will find that the
new explorer weaves it's way into your desktop system, through such places as
My Computer and Windows Explorer etc. This integration with the Windows
operating system is no idle act - IT GREATLY IMPROVES THE WHOLE SYSTEM. Things
become easier to do and are more intuitive.
Microsoft are not precluding the use of
other browsers such as Netscape, they just want their own product to be part of their own operating system.
You'd be pretty cheesed-off if you
invented a product everybody wanted to find some authority saying you have to
change it to something different that people then would probably not want.
What's happened to the FREE MARKET principles the modern world so proudly
boasts about ???
They should leave Microsoft to do what
Microsoft do best - making compatible, workable products for all of us - don't you leave Microsoft alone either, use
Microsoft Explorer 5.
Finally the product............
Good service providers like LINEONE
will send you a disk with Explorer 5 on it. This will not only install IE but
help customise it to your system and their system.
If you are unfortunate enough not to be
with Lineone and your ISP (Internet Service Provider e.g. Lineone), doesn't
provide IE, then download it from Microsoft. The downloading procedure will
when completed also do the updating of your PC for you.
Subsequent to this, double click the new
Explorer icon on your desktop to start the connection wizard and take the
existing ISP option if you already have an account with an ISP other than MSN
Click the
link below to get Explorer 5
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/
Note: the link below also offers other
add-ons to ie5
Go to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.asp? then…
Select Internet Explorer as the Product Name, and Win95 or Win98 or Win200 as the Operating system.