Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Is released Today to Public . It has been released few days ago in Microsoft TechNET . Lifehacker mentions that SP1 contains tons of Bug Fixes and Security Updates . Learn More about What’s Included in Service Pack 1 [Microsoft] .
Direct Downloads To SP1 :
It WORKS ! I couldn’t believe what I’ve seen while I tried this script . Now You can use CSS3 and you can make it working in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 .
I had my Windows Vista Installed on my Dell Inspiron since I had it, Let’s Say more than 12 months and I never re-installed Vista because I have lots of work to do and there’s no time to backup all my work and files that I need .
But this month, just before few days of releasing the final windows 7, I’ve Installed an evalutaion copy of Ultimate .
Microsoft Maren is a newely tool released by Cairo Microsoft Innovation Lab which concidered as a service like Yamli, Google Ta3reeb or Onkosh .
As a Windows Tool, It’s very helpful and interesting as It’s the first Desktop Application to offer this service Unlike other services which is web-based . But the whole point is not about the tool itself .
Promoting Maren was not in the right way. I’m blogging in English and I chat with some friends in Franco-Arab way but I really care about Arabic Content and promoting the proper content to users, But Maren Video Demonstration didn’t show that It’s helping users to use Arabic Letters or Franco-Arab but It just says Screw Arabic letters .. Write in Roman Characters and we will convert to Arabic .
CMIC with this tool is promoting the Extinction of Arabic Language for people who are kind of slow with writing Arabic Letters ! I really think Microsoft should think again how they promote their tools like that.
I think that most of firms and companies are all depending on Internet in their work especially those who are tech-related like Web Design Companies which I will talk a lot about .
We can not deny that There’s still LOTS of users who depend on IE6 to browse Websites as It’s the Default Browser With Windows XP which still own the big part in the market – after Vista FAIL- , and however Firefox is getting more users every month according to reports, we still suffer from Uncompitable IE6 . And unfortunately, Many Web Designers still try to make their works compitable with IE6 Thanks to conditional tags for CSS and Javascript and all those fixes for PNG which takes too much effort to make it working fine .
As an example of breaking the rules, I started to not care about IE6 anymore in my work . Each website I design I just view it in the lovely Firefox and IE7 and fixing the little issues with IE7.
In a poll we created on our new website at Pure Design Co. (Arabic) We asked the most common question if they like the new design or not . It was good to know that about 85% of visitors loved the new design, and the rest 15% didn’t like it or actually liked the old design more although most of them didn’t view it !
The only reason for choosing this was that It’s not compitable with IE6 and Thanks to WordPress & Plugins I put the lovely Yellow Message at the top of website while viewing it with IE6 to Upgrade or Switching .
As a progress we made, We found through Google Analytics that IE6 users became fewer day after day and Other Browsers are Increased .
So Why Don’t others follow such step and start giving up that Old ugly Browser and Advice their clients to upgrade or switch from . We should have a rule about that as Microsoft is not planning for a Force-Upgrade or Stopping its Support .
Let’s make the Internet Better Without IE6, Mac & Linux users : You’re Lucky