Adam, I'm not a critic of MS at all, however I am unhappy with the progression of improvement for the IE browser, both in addressing security and supporting standards.
And less than a year ago MS publicly stated there was not going to be an update to IE until Longhorn, so I'm not sure where you get the impression that this is not a change in plans. As an FYI, I never make a purchase or technology decision for or against a technology just because it is or is not MS. In fact, many MS products meet my needs. Current IE does not. - Calvin -----Original Message----- From: Adrocknaphobia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 10:40 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Internet Explorer 7 (no really!) Its funny how you can pick a MS critic from a mile away. Yes, they just publicly announced that IE 7 will be released this summer, but I think you underestimate MS when you act like they are shooting from this hip. An update to an application to the scale of IE would have been planned well over a year ago. Most likely before Firefox was even in beta. Firefox is not a threat. It's just new and hot. Much like mozilla was on it's initial launch when these exact same conversation were had. AOL and google are both launching browsers soon (AOL based on IE ... not Mozilla). You would be naive to assume that they will just put out clones of existing browsers. What would be the financial gain in that? Soon you will be developing for those browsers inconsistencies as well. So do you people subscribe to an 'MS hater' email list, because its always the same crap on every MS related thread.. stale and without substance. But the bottom line is... who cares? You may love fireFox, but your love for Firefox isn't going to put it on the 90% of desktops who are happily surfing with IE. -Adam On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:03:29 -0500, Calvin Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not entirely sure how your comments apply to my observations. > > Microsoft removed the competition for browsers and promptly ceased improving > their browser beyond the barest minimum. > > FireFox is beginning to penetrate the market again. > > Microsoft is now reversing their stance and improving their browser without > waiting on an OS (notice that Firefox isn't tied to an OS? That's the way it > all started, remember?). > > I think it's a good thing. > > - Calvin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:194981 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
