On 17 Oct 2009, at 16:47, Martin Sammtleben wrote:

> At 15:37 +0200, 17/10/09, Alan Evans wrote:
>> No, they had somewhere between 5 and 10,000 toolbars installed and
>> visible in IE 6. This left then with just under 8 microns of screen
>> real estate to view any actual website.
>
> I never understood that whole toolbar thing - must be a Windows-
> specific phenomenon.
>
> I usually run my browsers with a minimised toolbar, text-only
> buttons enabled and favourites toolbar and other fluff turned off.
>
> Less scrolling, less visual distraction.

Doesn't Office install an additional toolbar in IE? ( Not 100% sure,
I'm not an Office user).

Makes perfect sense if you view the entire Windows experience from the
perspective of, say, Eddie Izzard...

"Bees make honey, which is weird, because do earwigs make chutney? Do
spiders make gravy?"


If you want to be really ridiculous, next they'll be trying to get you
to believe there's no way of upgrading XP to Windows 7 without
starting again from scratch. How stupid would that be?

Oh, wait...



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regards,

Miles


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