Internet Explorer Coming To Xbox 360

15 responses to “Internet Explorer Coming To Xbox 360”

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   Neku Hikari

   June 5, 2012 at 6:00 am

   So, what your saying is…. that their bringing a virus onto the xbox…. smart move MS

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      WiseHacker

      June 5, 2012 at 9:21 am

      No, but alas they are bringing a means of letting viruses in to the Xbox.

      Most attacks these days are not on the operating system directly, the break in via the browser then attack the rest of the system.

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   Grant

   June 5, 2012 at 6:25 am

   Wii had a net browser out of the box. How old is that thing now? 5 – 6 years?

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   1. 

      MrTaco

      June 5, 2012 at 8:41 am

      Did it? I thought it wasn’t available for a couple of months, when it got put up on the Wii Shop.

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3. 

   MstrCatChowming

   June 5, 2012 at 6:45 am

   Cool… But it won’t be free fucking GOLD bullshit!

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4. 

   Geezer

   June 5, 2012 at 8:21 am

   I guess this is IE’s last ditch effort to retain any market share since every PC user with a brain has moved on to greener pastures by now.

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      WiseHacker

      June 5, 2012 at 9:23 am

      I do not mean to be rude, but a lot of the bad hype about IE comes from every version from Version 6 backwards.

      From 7 onwards they finally took a hint and improved it. But there is no denying that IE has become a catchup browser since 7 onwards.

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      1. 

         Zar

         June 5, 2012 at 10:30 am

         No, they took everyone else’s idea and cannibalised it

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      2. 

         Ad

         June 5, 2012 at 11:07 am

         I don’t know, for some reason IE8 completely disabled my AV software. Worked fine once I rolled back to IE7, so I don’t know what happened there.
         But then, IE has only ever existed to point me to getfirefox.com 😉

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      3. 

         Steve

         June 6, 2012 at 12:12 am

         IE was universally awful up until 9, but it was IE6 which got everyone to jump ship to Firefox. Yes, the newest version isn’t bad, but neither is it particularly better than Firefox or Chrome so there’s no reason to move back when the current alternatives are already better supported by the community.

         Nevertheless, browsers on consoles are an all-round terrible experience. Wii does it a little better due to the remote, but PS3’s sucks, which stinks because there is no Youtube app for it.

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5. 

   brad

   June 5, 2012 at 8:29 am

   wow. late much.

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6. 

   Paul

   June 5, 2012 at 10:31 am

   One word…. PORN

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7. 

   crotchdot

   June 5, 2012 at 10:39 am

   Welcome to the mid-90s, Microsoft.

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8. 

   mikezombie777

   June 5, 2012 at 1:51 pm

   Both the Wii & PS3 have had browsers since day 1, its taken how long for MS to catchup? I remember them saying several years ago there was no need for a browser on the 360, now they’ve caved and its too late. Nobody cares any more, especially not for IE. The very worst browser ever conceived.

   Any sane person jumped ship to Firefox years ago, now Firefox has become obsolete with the newer versions of Opera & Chrome.

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9. 

   JellyArrow

   June 5, 2012 at 11:00 pm

   PS3’s browser is absolute garbage. Browsers on consoles seem to be unnecessary.

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