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Microsoft's pop-up blocker From the "Luddite's View" department For the past two months, I've been forced to use MSIE at work. It's not as bad as I feared; the last time I used it was years ago, when version 5.0 was quite new. The 6.0 version is surprisingly stable, even though it becomes quite the resource hog when a dozen or more windows are open, unlike Opera with its tabs.
One thing that drives me crazy, though, is the Microsoft pop-up blocker (with my current computer rights, I'm not able to disable it and install the Google Toolbar). Set at "Medium", the blocker is so dilligent that it even blocks everything from MS Sharepoint and MS Outlook Web Access, thus rendering other Microsoft services useless (in fact, due to these problems with Sharepoint, our office switched to Wiki). While I can disable the pop-up blocker for a certain Web page at the moment, doing so will reload the page, causing me to lose everything I've written. Microsoft did it once again - applied a concept already used by other companies, but implemented it so poorly that even its own products are suffering. |
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