On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 Jake wrote:

Now and again, we discuss different browsers and our experiences with
them. In case you haven't picked it up, from January, Microsoft will
start silently updating Internet Explorer to the latest version - this
isn't security updates, it's updating IE7, say, to IE9.

More info he http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16214912.

It may be an issue for some people. I use Chrome most of the time but
I've found, e.g., that IE is more reliable when I'm doing my online
tax return, provided I use IE7. IE8 and IE9 don't work.

If you haven't upgraded your operating system to at least Windows Vista,
you'll not get IE9.

But you will get IE8 with XP and IE8 doesn't work for me with Inland
Revenue web site (among others). I've also experienced a raft of PDF
problems with IE8 (and 9).

That's strange because I haven't had problems with IE8. Well, once I'd
got used to it, of course!

David

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David Rance writing from Caversham, Reading, UK
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