Thursday, July 28, 2005

Windows Vista to Firefox - You will be assimilated!

Take a look at that first screenshot.... it's a little hard to tell the difference between Firefox and IE 7 (bundled with Windows Vista). It seems apparent to me that Microsoft is taking the Copy/Paste approach to Open Source. After all, if it ain't broke... copy it! As you can see below, the IE 7 File Download and Security Warning dialog boxes are pretty much the same as in IE 6.
As soon as we fire up Firefox, we get the now familiar Windows Firewall prompt, saving us from ourselves (and better browsing experiences). After allowing Firefox to breathe that fine fresh internet bandwidth, it's time to start downloading some extensions! I got most of my favorite extensions to load...Except for the one extension that really saves my remaining traces of sanity... Adblock! Well, hopefully this will be resolved soon. Speaking of extensions, you think maybe Microsoft came up with their own implementation of this rockin concept?! Why, yes they did! It just happens to look almost identical! Well, they're not the same though, of course. IE 7 has Add-Ons. Nothing like extensions. Seriously, I'm sure MS had the idea first. There don't seem to be any Add-Ons out there currently, but it should be interesting to see what power Add-On authors are given to manipulate IE.

1 comment:

Edwood Ocasio said...

This is the most readable information about IE7 and Windows Vista I have found today. Thank you.