> How does microsoft benefit by offering IE at all? It's free. Updates > are free. It costs them bandwidth for downloads and updates. It costs > them staff time to code, fix, patch, etc. and they don't get a dime off it.
Rhetorical I guess but it's a good point. MS benefits from ubiquity. MS Office has become almost universal because "everyone" has it, so "everyone" just keeps buying it. They don't want people to break that lack of thought by using some other company's product to browse the web. -- --- <http://cheshrkat.blogspot.com/> --- The future has arrived; it's just not --- evenly distributed. - William Gibson ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
