So, I'm doing what I do every day. Browsing forums, reading up on news, checking emails. Just the usual innocent stuff I do when I have spare time at work. I didn't ask nor deserve to be violated, or offended. But Microsoft did just that, by creating and displaying this monstrosity on their website -
I mean, yes Microsoft, we know you think you're the best and we know you make ridiculous claims all of the time, but this, THIS Microsoft, is embarassing.
First thing is first. I'm not completely sure when you posted this little table of lies, but I know it was very recently, and the first thing I notice is that you didn't include Safari 4 in your "comparisons".... We'll leave it at that for now, but if you're reading this and you work for Microsoft, please feel free to leave reasons and/or bad excuses as to why this is. Nevermind, I didn't think you would anyway.
It's not even like you have worded or made the categories in this table benefit your browsers functionality to make it seem like it comes out on top. At least I would even acknowledge the effort you could have put into it by doing this, but by saying what you have here, it just makes you look, well, immature, if that could even make any sense? The fact that you are claiming the customization of IE8 is on par with Firefox 3 backs up my point.
We have this, we have that, and this is why ours is the best. Well what about Firefox and Chrome's features that you fail to even consider in this?
Your browser isn't bad, IE7 was an example (the definition?) of bad! So you have made great improvements since that disaster at least. But, in my personal opinion, you still have alot to prove and IMprove with IE before you can even think about competing with these other browsers.
Speed wise, you know the new Safari browser is laughing at you and your competitors, so lets just not go down the benchmarking route and laugh at you any more than we need to.
To finish things off, please continue the great work with Win 7, I look forward to installing my Euro version without your bundled super browser.
GG.
p.s. I just watched
this video and I think it gives a good example of the type of people who use Internet Explorer. Enough said.
Here's a size comparison between the Hyper 530W Type M and the Corsair HX 1000W
And a size comparison between the HD4870 and the HD4870 X2
Out with the old and in with the new
Messy cables at the back, but some cable ties later and it's not so bad
Then I wanted to play with Crossfire and combine my 2 cards, it didn't work out as great as I thought it would, but it looked nice
I ran a few benchmarks with CF enabled, and ran the same benchmarks using the new X2 card on it's own, just out of curiosity to see any performance increase and also so I could learn how to setup and run Crossfire. The benchmarks/results etc can all be found HERE in the thread I created on Overclockers.net.
With these settings, the card produces an average of 22-30fps which is definitely smooth enough and playable. With large explosions and alot of gun fire, it can struggle a bit.
Using the same settings on the X2, I was getting average frame rates of between 42-60fps.
Crysis Warhead maxed out on the X2. With these settings I was getting frame rates as high as 44fps, but they were also dropping as low as 18fps like in the bottom screenshot. The game is unplayable when it gets down as low as this, but by leaving all settings on "Enthusiast" and dropping the AA down to x4, the game is definitely playable and will only struggle in really intense situations.
