Internet Explorer Just Died

Wierd thing happened. The IE on my desktop computer just died. It refuses to open any link. DNS errors. So, i thought it was the usual rogers-cutting-our-service-due-to-excessive-downloading-of-movies: BUT Mozilla was working fine. The problem wasn't with our internet connection. IE just refused to open anything. In fact, this is just a blessing in disguise. I use Firefox for my laptop, but my family was still using old IE. But now, I can migrate them all to Firefox; a much better browser. I think the IE on our desktop just commited a heroic sacrifice (i.e. suicide) to prevent us from any future problems; realizing its own flaws.

Ofcourse, I don't blame IE for its vulnerability and so called security loopholes. When you have the biggest, richest and most dominant company with a product; hackers won't waste their time trying to hack 5-10% of the market, but the 90% of the world that uses IE. Regardless of this genuine excuse for Microsofts constant security updates, they do have shoddy products that at times are lacking any common sensical design. They made a decent effort with XP, but considering they have been working in the OS industry for...um..like ever...they should know from decades of user testing that they have some annoying and unintuitive interface elements.

If I took the 88 or so students in my Systems Design class, and we all had to make an OS with just interaction design elements; then we could come up with a world class product with all the best elements of OS X or XP or Linux. The only limitation would be that most of us do not have the level of skills to make an OS and some know basic C++ (and have forgetten since 1A); but as far as creating an interactive and intuitive system, there's no question it would surpass the XP.

Yea, i'm done my rant for now.