My Initial review of MS Internet Explorer 4.0
 

                    IE 4.0 VS Netscape Communicator
                  Machine : 486 DX4 120 MHz - 8 Mb RAM
                               Speed Tests
                                 IE 4.0
This browser performed fairly under this system configuration. For refrence, it took
    8 seconds to open HTTP://WWW.WEBCRAWLER.COM. It took
    5 seconds to open HTTP://WWW.YAHOO.COM. And it took
    5 seconds to open HTTP://WWW.GEOCITIES.COM/SILICONVALLEY/HAVEN/6751/INDEX.HTM

                                Netscape
  This browser definetly won! It ran very well under the configuration
   listed. Although, it did kinda get stumped on Java, it ran well all
  around. In the same order above, it took 6 seconds, 3 seconds, and 4
                     seconds to open the same sites.

By the way: David has a site that provides tutorials for beginners to help them
understand the workings of your PC.  He also offers to provide tailored tutorials
to specific questions. Visit David's site at:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/6751/index.htm

Hi There
My name is Damon Simms, I run an Internet Consultancy from Brisbane In
Australia, with the developers preview release of MSIE, as a developer I
had to try it, and I was pleasantly surprised, however I would reccomend
that no one with a pre-pentium machine bother.   We have three machines
here (2x486 and 1xp133) both of the 486's have 32 MB RAM, and MSIE 4 still
screwed them over, however the pentium actually seemed to improve
performance, which surprised me.
I would reccomend that anyone with a pre-pentium based system instead use
either MSIE 4 without the desktop enhancements or Netscape Communicator,
which I have found to be an easy to use, 486 friendly system, and I have
heard similar thing from people who are running it on 16 MB ram machines.

Thanks
Damon Simms
Business Innovations Consultant
WebMagic Australia *http://webmagic.ambience.com.au/*

Subject: IE 4.0

Interesting Comments about IE 4.0... Certainly ones that i would agree
with... I've been working in the computer industries many facets for about
10 years now and no other program such as IE4.0 has done so much damage to
systems I've seen it running on... Your experience with your first IE
installation on an 8MB machine halving its system speed is not uncommon...
even on the bigger machines...

As a self employed network consultant, I just finished a major contract
Network Install for Shell Australia... They were moving away from their Unix
Servers to NT Servers... Each one of the nodule servers (12 in all) also
controlled, the lighting, environmental, security, and telecommunications
for each section within the refinery.  Each machine required dedicated dual
processor systems to handle their custom written telecommunications and
environmental monitoring / control software...

However with the advent of the burgeoning WWW phenomena, the servers also
had dedicated links to their intranet and the Internet.  Unfortunately as
the custom written software was desgined and programmed by Microsoft, part
of the deal was integrating IE4.0 into the software package compiled...
unfortunately... IE4.0 slowed down each server over 45%... When your talking
about Dual Pentium II 333MHz machines being slowed from approximately 670MHz
combined clock speed to just under 340MHz.. They would have been better off
upgrading their software and their 200MHz pentium Servers to 333 Mhz Single
Pentium II's

When you consider that Shell spent approximately $104,000 on upgrading their
computer hardware to handle their new software and operating system... It;s
no wonder their concerned when the original upgrade of their Unix system was
only going to cost $54,000.  They believed that Microsoft NT was the Way to
Go... In some respects... SO DO I... (WIN 95 is the primer for the home user
heading to the NT interface) but if IE4.0 is going to cause this many
problems on an industrial strength networked super computer system, then
what hope does the average home user have in beating the IE4.0 Blues...

Give me Netscape Anyday... At least it doesnt integrate itself into the
operating system to the point where a complete uninstall is virtually
impossible...

And I've seen first hand what the many disgruntled partisans with IE
installed and the terrible trouble with their registries.  Any program that
modifies any operating systems registry should be capable of repairing and
replacing any changes it makes on an install or uninstall.  The computer
user has the right to choose which software they use, not which one is going
to work without stuffing up the registry on uninstall... Or is this trouble
induced as a ploy by the monopoly to force us to stick with the product
rather than risk system errors if we uninstall it...

As you can see, IE 4.0 is not on programs to install list... and my opinion
of microsoft on this matter is summed up by this statement made by an
anonymous netscape representative...

 "Microsoft... the only company in the world who if they cant
 beat the opposition... they first try to have their product
 prevented from sale in a court of law... when this fails... they
 go out to by the company to pinch the ideas as their own..."

BTW Nice to meet another Australian Liberty User...

Glen

I wish I would have known about your page several days ago before I installed IE4.0.  I have a 486dx66 also and I could not agree with you more on the loss of speed, throughout every aspect of my computer.  I am almost to the point of uninstalling the software and going with something else.
Bill Gates should be dragged into the street and shot.....Scott Reed.