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I use google maps daily and have had no problems. I bet this is user error. Google takes a second or two to respond and you jump around saying IE is "locked up!"

Um. No. And please don't invent little scenarios to support your point. If you have nothing, then just admit you don't know. Again, it's amazing the lengths some people will go to to defend their precious microsoft.

I mention google maps because it's consistent, and almost identical to the problems we were having with my company's old "new" website, and can be accessed and tested by other people (our old website now only exists on a backup CD).

Here are the actual symptoms. It runs fine, for a while. But if I stay connected to the site for too long, when I go to close the window, it locks up. It doesn't matter if I try the close button, the close command from the window, Alt-F4, or whatever. The same thing happens. The window stays put and the mouse and keyboard lock up. And are still locked up a hour later. The machine responds to pings from the network, but nothing else. The only cure is a power cycle.

The same thing happened with my old "new" company website. It did it on both dells, the hp, and the old cad machine (the new cad machine came later). These are work machines, and do not have gimmick devices like webcams and whatnot attached. We tried downgrading to windows 98, with the same result. The only thing we found that affected the lock up (and that only made it happen sooner) was reducing the memory by pulling DIMMS. The only machine we never got to crash with the old website was the laptop of the kid who wrote it, and I suspect that was because it had a gig of RAM installed (graduation present from his folks). My cad guy thinks it's a memory leak, either in explorer or windows. I'm inclined to agree.

Now, why don't you try explaining those symptoms instead of trying to attack me personally in your misguided quest to defend microsoft.