@Uralbas
I have WindowsXP on a Netbook (w/Linux Dualboot) and Windows7 triple booting Linux, Win7 and XP on an almost new quad core PC. For Browsers.... I have them all installed, but on the Netbook only use Chrome beta. It's a phenomenal browser and I just installed the developer's version of FLASH (btw... new next gen 3D MoleHill API are fantastic for gaming online, etc.).
Same on that Quadcore (12gig ram) Windows 7 (64bit) on this Desktop PC (booting all 3 OS's). Except I use an assortment of browsers running at the same time. Even though my primary browser has now become.... yeah "Chrome"... and I used to love the IE experience (but not now). When the IE9 RC came out I was hyped to see the new 3D stuff, features. But I was also mad that I couldn't at least try it out on my netbook or my XP media computer (5yr old PC) in the family room that I rarely use now.
To be honest..... I rarely use Windows 7 because it's such a pain to find anything with it's retarded search tool. One good thing is it will display my 1080P 60fps camera videos about as good as this Quad core does on Mint Linux. Chrome Beta runs awesome in it along with Opera and Firefox 4 so no need for IE anything and though I've tried Safari in Windows, I don't like it at all. It's boring and is missing the goodies both Opera and Chrome have added into Webkit along with KDE of course! Apple seems to have taken KDE's browser engine and dressed it up a bit and that's all!
Using IE9? Well I was kind of impressed at first by the speed over IE 8 (but Chrome Beta kills them all in features/speed), but MS hasn't changed the things that really count. It remains the most "Unintuitive" browser out there (tied w/ Safari) and to top it off, they are trying to sell us fake 3D as a substitute for the REAL 3D experience available with WebGL in every other browser. They use only the CSS3 and HTML5 that's out there to simulate 3D, like they were first doing on Vista in software (it's what made Vista so slow). Why fake it? All they have to do is adopt WebGL and Google's O3D support. But they seem to think they can fool us...... again!
No thanks! ....I'll stick with Chrome now that they are going to be supporting in browser Applications (Apps) developed to run even after you close your browser, it will basically be an OS within a sandbox, running Apps within a sandbox, within your OS. While Microsoft because they made the browser part of the OS in the first place, can only sandbox parts of IE and continue to leave you vulnerable to Zero Day Attacks on a daily basis! .....that I find Ludicrous coupled with slower browsing and NO REAL 3D Web with WebGL or FLASH 3D MoleHill of the competition. Luckily Adobe will have 3D "MoleHill" FLASH as a Plugin and Chrome will have that built right in their browser. It's like playing console games online in your browser and it's simply stunning!!!
btw..... note to Steve Jobs: Wake up fool, your customers are going to hate you when the next generation of fully cross platform hardware accelerated FLASH comes out and your competitors are all running 3D MoleHill Games online. Along with other Applications on the Web that HTML5 alone doesn't have secure payment plan for. So it'll all be lame FREE only content. The Premium Web Games and Applications will only be available to literally all your competition!!! FLASH Baby it'll Rock Our 3D Virtual Web World!!!
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