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Friday, September 01, 2006

A sheep in wolf's clothing?

So, according to the headlines, a new browser has been developed (called "browzar" - suitably Ali G) which allows surfers to move about the internet without leaving a single trace of where they've been. This is apparently because the history is deleted the moment you close the browser; rather like the setting you can have in any other browser, then. (Tools/Internet Options/Advanced tab in IE6).

But dig a little deeper into the article and you find that this "new" browser is nothing more than an IE Shell - a skin, if you like, wrapped around the standard IE browser that comes as part of windows.

How can this be launched as a new product? IT companies such as Compsoft spend huge amounts of time building software, creating something new for a specific market or use. And yet a simple skin around an already ubiquitous piece of free software that every Windows user already has, hits front page news!

And it doesn't even work properly...

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