Info World says IE8 is Bloated

http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterpri...onsumes_m.html

Excerpted from article by Randall C. Kennedy:

"If I boot XP (SP3) on a 1GB system, I have more than 800MB free. Add
IE 8 to the mix and, depending on the site workload, I can suddenly
find myself with less than half that. The situation is even worse
under Vista. In fact, IE 8 is fatter than my word processor (Word
2007), spreadsheet (Excel 2007), and presentation software (PowerPoint
2007) combined. It's even fatter than Visual Studio 2008 with 10,000
lines of code and several complex, multi-part Web forms loaded into
the IDE."

Come on folks, this is crap. I was so disappointed in Office 2007
also. There is simply no good reason for all this bloatware.

What is your question for the group?

If your question for the group concerns the beta version of IE 8
currently available for testing by developers, I'm afraid you're in the
wrong place.
---
Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

reporter wrote:
> http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterpri...onsumes_m.html
>
> Excerpted from article by Randall C. Kennedy:
>
> "If I boot XP (SP3) on a 1GB system, I have more than 800MB free. Add
> IE 8 to the mix and, depending on the site workload, I can suddenly
> find myself with less than half that. The situation is even worse
> under Vista. In fact, IE 8 is fatter than my word processor (Word
> 2007), spreadsheet (Excel 2007), and presentation software (PowerPoint
> 2007) combined. It's even fatter than Visual Studio 2008 with 10,000
> lines of code and several complex, multi-part Web forms loaded into
> the IDE."
>
> Come on folks, this is crap. I was so disappointed in Office 2007
> also. There is simply no good reason for all this bloatware.

IE Beta Public Newsgroup Support: microsoft.public.internetexplorer.beta

Via the web-interface:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...xplorer. beta

Via your newsreader:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...texplorer.beta

[Yes, I understand that the link you may have used probably brought you to
IE General newsgroup. We're trying to get that fixed.]
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

reporter wrote:
> http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterpri...onsumes_m.html
>
> Excerpted from article by Randall C. Kennedy:
>
> "If I boot XP (SP3) on a 1GB system, I have more than 800MB free. Add
> IE 8 to the mix and, depending on the site workload, I can suddenly
> find myself with less than half that. The situation is even worse
> under Vista. In fact, IE 8 is fatter than my word processor (Word
> 2007), spreadsheet (Excel 2007), and presentation software (PowerPoint
> 2007) combined. It's even fatter than Visual Studio 2008 with 10,000
> lines of code and several complex, multi-part Web forms loaded into
> the IDE."
>
> Come on folks, this is crap. I was so disappointed in Office 2007
> also. There is simply no good reason for all this bloatware.