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Windows Internet Explorer - why?
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12/09/2008 00:09:36
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Technical writing
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Dragan,

Wher do you see it? IE6 shows 'Microsoft Internet Explorer' in the title, About dialog and in the messagebox
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Microsoft Internet Explorer
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Only the <B>, <CENTER>, <I>, <P>, <BR>, <FONT>, <A>, <U>, <LI>, <OL> and <UL> tags are allowed in Signature field.
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OK   
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>Just saw the pasted error text in message #1346602, and all of a sudden... why is it called "Windows Internet Explorer"? Is there a Mac and a Linux version? Hold it... let's see what the wikipedia has to say. There's a "Internet Explorer Macintosh Edition", but no "Internet Explorer Windows Edition", and sure enough no "Internet Explorer Linux Edition" nor "Linux Internet Explorer".
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>So, why put the word Windows in front? I can imagine at least three reasons (out of the necessary seven).
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>1) there are about twenty different internets, but there's only one "windows internet". This browser explores that one, ignoring the others.
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>2) anything compiled under any of the Windowses should be called Windows Something; the name isn't copyrighted anyway (can't do that with a generic term).
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>3) it never hurts to repeat the name of your flagship product, even at the point when nobody notices whether you did it or not.
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>4) there are about gazillion internet explorers, but only one is made for a Windows; the others were never published, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't all have distinctive names.
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>5)...
--sb--
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