Replying to Windows 7 Browserless Version

Then I guess we're just suppose to download a browser on XP, put it onto a USB stick, go back on Windows 7 and install it that way? Seems very stupid to me..

You can also get it on your iPhone and put it on your PC, or probably your PC is able to perform an unattended non-interactive browserless connection. Just imagine a "net use" command in a not-displayed batch file, it can attach a Microsoft read-only shared resource and copy the .cab file to a temporary file on your PC. The only technical problem would be that you would have to be warned that this is not compliant with the current european rules, and you have to send $0.99 to Microsoft and accept the TOS.

Then I guess we're just suppose to download a browser on XP, put it onto a USB stick, go back on Windows 7 and install it that way? Seems very stupid to me..

Why do you keep talking about IE6? It's IE8 that's bundled with Windows 7 for non-European versions.

Sorry for mistyping. You are right, we should talk about IE8 now. IE8 on Windows7 for private users, Windows 2008 for enterprise business, how confusing these numbers are.

You are right, it seems stupid. However, if a Judge tells Microsoft that he has to stop giving IE6 for free, this means that you have to buy your browser and stop getting it for free bundled with your OS.

Why do you keep talking about IE6? It's IE8 that's bundled with Windows 7 for non-European versions.

Or, M$ could sell 2 version of Win7. $xxx for browserless version, and $1 extra for IE This will solve the problem

That's probably the real full thing. We have learned about the first part, the browserless part for Europe only. The second part will probably arrive soon.

Or, M$ could sell 2 version of Win7. $xxx for browserless version, and $1 extra for IE This will solve the problem

You are right, it seems stupid. However, if a Judge tells Microsoft that he has to stop giving IE6 for free, this means that you have to buy your browser and stop getting it for free bundled with your OS.

That's a little stupid in my opinion.

You are right, it seems stupid. However, if a Judge tells Microsoft that he has to stop giving IE6 for free, this means that you have to buy your browser and stop getting it for free bundled with your OS.

I never knew Windows 7 was browserless. How the heck we suppose to download stuff with no browser?? That's a little stupid in my opinion.

Sometimes I think that to much distributions for Linux could make a lot of people, especially beginners to be confused

That's slightly off-topic in a "Windows 7" distro discussion.

I hate web applications which only work with IE6

Yes, we need more standardization. Today for my Office I have an application which works only with IE6. And, strangely, my gmail is currently freezing with IE6, but works correctly with firefox, and claims it works better with chrome. Which would mean that I must simultaneously use three different web browsers on my PC.
Nevertheless, you are legitimately talking about Linux, because when everybody will have to use Firefox as a browser and will use OpenOffice for text and spreadsheet processing, there will be no need to stick to Microsoft Windows as OS, Linux will do the same job the same way.

Sometimes I think that to much distributions for Linux could make a lot of people, especially beginners to be confused

Everyone is talking about browsers, as it's getting to be one of the most important tools, because in some way it is.. Some office software is being replaced with applications working on browsers, because you can do a lot using HTML and CSS + Javascript and all those AJAX and JQuery etc. It's easy to use for everyone, and programs written with C++ or C# needs to be installed on every computer, where a web application only needs to have a server. Of course, you never can replace with the same functionality Autocad, Photoshop and etc.

I hate web applications which only work with IE