If you have downloaded the new version of IE, you most probably won’t be reading this. We are please to announce that Ninfomania is considered “unworthy” of your IE 5 in-box. In some freak filtering incident, you will find your Friday feed relegated to trash, unless to tweak your security settings. Not that that this going to distract our dissection of Microsoft’s new browser, in some warped twist of fate, I think it might improve it.

With that minor issue aside [which we have to concede was first spotted by those clever chaps at NTK when scooping through our “unworthy” news] IE5 is OK. It’s not perfect, of course, but it’s faster, more stable, and easier to use than its predecessors; and it gets rid of a lot of the junk (like the Channel bar) that used to clutter up previous versions.

Now that you have just had your heads exposed to a blast of Microsoft MindController 1.0, repeat after me, “I love IE.”

OK, back on track. Before we totally write-off Netscape, we have to say it is still going to be a tough uphill struggle for the open source supported Mozilla to compete with the mighty MS. But hey, I hope we’re proved wrong ...

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