Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"As someone who doesn't reside in the USA, I was wondering what would be the best way to get internet for my computer in the US for a couple of weeks? If it were Europe I know I'd look for some prepaid data. Is there anything similar offered by American carriers? A MiFi or a data SIM that I can tether from would work, but I'm trying to maintain a tight budget. Help!"
Does anyone else think that Microsoft is doing this to get people annoyed, and once they complain to Microsoft about it they'll be redirected to the European Union?
No. The browser wars are dead. No one cares what browser people use. Its all about rendering pages at this point. Browsers are trying to be faster and present the latest and greatest.
The web broke wide open a long time ago. MS knows that they will be forced to do this anyway. They don't have a choice in the matter. Being cooperative is in their favour.
@WS I'm not sure that the wars are over. I mean, it's a lot less dramatic than the logo-dumping (look it up, it's really funny) days of Netscape vs. IE, but there IS a fierce competition, albeit with more contestants. IE8 is the limping grandpa following everyone else with sub-par speed. Opera 10b2 is faster than that, but still behind the leaders. And there is some weird oneupmanship going on at the front with Firefox 3.5.1 and Safari 4 neck and neck and Chrome's latest beta in front by a nose. But the Google offspring is a bit lightweight, with no add-ons or skins whatsoever to wear it down.
..........or you can get a faster computer.
by the time its all tweaked, everyone and their grandma's laptop will have 12gb DDR3 and SSDs, we can all go back to firefox 3.0 where all of our addons work.
I don't think those are the rigth responses to my comment.
I don't think those are the rigth responses to my comment.
I don't think those are the right responses to my comment.