THE excellent Web site called Ghabuntu previously reported on Microsoft tricks which were used in Ghana to spread Internet Explorer. There are a couple of new posts from Ghabuntu and the author complains about other tricks that relate to IE9.
Your Internet- Should Internet Explorer Get its Way
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First off all sites will only display a message telling you how you need to view it via IE9. Then when you hop over to download IE9 and are unfortunate to be using XP, you'd be told to switch to 7. That will require you to shell out some cash. With XP still being the dominant OS version out there, that would mean heaps of upgrade cash for Redmond.
I actually need to shell money to upgrade to 7 before I can try the beta? Mr Ballmer, WTF!