I'm curious, what websites work only with IE these days??? I honestly didn't even know anyone uses IE any more! I use Firefox, and the only time I can't see a website is when it requires me to take down more of my security than I'm willing to do. If I really really want to look at (or post a comment on) whatever site it is that's so full of spyware, I run Safari in private browsing mode and then immediately quit out of it, then delete all my Flash cookies, when I'm done. Never had a problem viewing a website for reasons that weren't self-imposed
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In our engineering biz, we run into TONS of governemnt websites that are IE based, and cannot be viewed in Mozilla. I hate it.
I don't see what the rush to Win 8 is. We have several Win 7 systems that work great,and even some XP ones that while slower, do the job just fine.