Jack (MVP-Networking). wrote:
> Hi
> It is a little hard to seriously trash something

.... distributed preinstalled on virtually every computer when you buy
it, along with an OS you have almost no choice but to buy.

> when there is Millions
> using it and it works for them.

Millions of people are having unprotected sex too. Just because it
'works for them' doesn't make it advisable. :-)

> No software is perfect, and neither are users.

Absolutely, on both counts.

The unanswerable question is - how many of those millions of IE users
would have voluntarily downloaded it from MS's website if they'd had
some other browser preinstalled instead instead? Or if the Windows
installer had offered a choice of 5 browsers in alphabetic order with
none preselected?

>> Otherwise you could try upgrading to IE7, see if that fixes it. My
>> only remaining guess is that one of your network card installers has
>> "upgraded" some DLL in the TCP stack to a version that IE6 doesn't like.

I presume you ignored this as it didn't fit with your preconceptions
that I was a rabid anti-MS freetard? Just for reference I'm posting this
from a machine with installs of XP of Linux, each for its different
purpose.