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The first beta version of an application is usually long on bugs, short on features and bears little resemblance to the eventual finished program. And so I expected most of my time with Internet Explorer 8 to be working around unexpected crashes and strange behaviour. But no: despite the warnings that the beta was just for developers, I found it ran smoothly and gave me no real problems.
For starters, the download is relatively small, at 14MB. It installed quickly and with no complications, then opened to display an interface that looked similar to Internet Explorer 7. The program ran well, occasionally a little on the slow side (entirely normal with betas), but with no crashes. Microsoft has been working on browser reliability.

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I read an article today and wanted to comment on it. The article discusses how computers are so prevalent in schools and in some districts keyboarding is now taught in kindergarten and how this may cause the demise handwriting or cursive writing.

I think it is about time that cursive writing went away. What is the point. It is much easier to read block text than cursive. With computer’s coming more and more a part of our lives, we are more accustomed to reading block. Personal written communication is now done mostly on computers using email messaging.

KILL CURSIVE HANDWRITING!

Is their still a point for cursive handwriting. Please share your comments.