The other day I wanted to install Google Chrome browser on the nearby Windows PC. Here is what I saw when I opened the download page in Microsoft Internet Explorer.
To help protect security, Internet Explorer blocked this site from downloading files to your computer.
I know, it’s probably a generic protection against downloading executable files, but it’s still funny. Especially, the bit about MSIE protecting security by blocking Google Chrome. Yeah, right.
I smiled after reading this post. It reminded me of the fact that in our office, designers use my laptop to test web sites on Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. We have two guys doing the designs, and one of the uses Windows Vista, which runs MSIE 7. Another one uses, I think, Windows XP, but with MSIE upgraded to version 7 too. I heard it’s possible to have several versions of Internet Explorer running on the same Windows installation, but nobody around here knows how to do it or cares enough to experiment.
But the funniest thing in this whole story is that my laptop is running on Fedora Linux.