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webmaster · 07-15-2009, 01:44 PM

Most of the IT world is now recommending the IE8 upgrade. It is much more secure than IE7 or IE6 (EEK!) and Microsoft is quickly winding down support for those previous versions. I have been testing IE8 both at home and at work since it was released and have installed it on dozens of computers. Although I've read a few horror stories we are not seeing any problems, just some small annoyances. If your computer is in good working order before the upgrade the chances are it will work fine after the upgrade. If your computer is a mess now it could be a bigger mess when you're done.

Any time you do an IE upgrade you are making important changes to Windows and there is some risk. However my feeling is that a small risk of installation problems is better than sticking with obsolete and possibly unsafe software that bring risks of their own.

Those of you running Firefox should still do the IE8 upgrade since it makes Windows more secure, not just the browser. Firefox fans should also know that Firefox has fallen behind IE and Chrome since it lacks multithreading support and is unable to support multiple core processors. That means that if you have a nice new dual or quad core computer Firefox will only use a single core. They are talking about fixing this in Firefox 4 but those running versions 2 and 3 aren't able to take advantage of all the power available in newer computers.

07-15-2009, 01:44 PM	#20
webmaster Moderator Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 2,494 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 467 Thanked 4,031 Times in 864 Posts	Browser Talk Most of the IT world is now recommending the IE8 upgrade. It is much more secure than IE7 or IE6 (EEK!) and Microsoft is quickly winding down support for those previous versions. I have been testing IE8 both at home and at work since it was released and have installed it on dozens of computers. Although I've read a few horror stories we are not seeing any problems, just some small annoyances. If your computer is in good working order before the upgrade the chances are it will work fine after the upgrade. If your computer is a mess now it could be a bigger mess when you're done. Any time you do an IE upgrade you are making important changes to Windows and there is some risk. However my feeling is that a small risk of installation problems is better than sticking with obsolete and possibly unsafe software that bring risks of their own. Those of you running Firefox should still do the IE8 upgrade since it makes Windows more secure, not just the browser. Firefox fans should also know that Firefox has fallen behind IE and Chrome since it lacks multithreading support and is unable to support multiple core processors. That means that if you have a nice new dual or quad core computer Firefox will only use a single core. They are talking about fixing this in Firefox 4 but those running versions 2 and 3 aren't able to take advantage of all the power available in newer computers.