| Thursday, October 19, 2006 |
| My thoughts on...the release of Internet Explorer 7 |
 The Internet is abuzz with news of the release of IE7, the first update to Internet Explorer in the last five years. Being a Firefox user myself, I pretty much shrugged it off. I said to myself, "Look at those losers. All giddy over a web experience that is no stranger to users of Firefox, Opera, Flock, Safari, and just about any other web browser." I have used IE7 myself, and I have to tell you, it's not bad. It has the features of Firefox, like tabbed browsing, a search box, and an RSS reader. It also has a few more, like page magnification.
The original intent of this post was to crush the high hopes of Internet Explorer 7 users. But complacency aside, it might actually be a threat to Firefox. Since IE7 has the features of Firefox, doesn't have much of an advantage anymore. Microsoft seems to be growing out of its complacency nowadays, and this is obviously an attempt to curtail Firefox from further eating away at its market share, which now stands at 86%, from 93% in 2004.
And Microsoft seems to have learned a little something from the open source movement, with the release of five betas, and their slogan, "we heard you." Seems like Microsoft no longer sits in its ivory tower, but is now willing to get down in the trenches. It realises that while its was sleeping, its enemies were gaining ground, and now it intends to throw its weight around and crush all that oppose it. But has my original intent changed? Hell no! The first IE7 vulnerability was discovered less than 24 hours after its release. It has trouble with Google websites, PC Magazine gave Firefox a higher rating than IE7, and Firefox 2 is on its heels. Ha! Take that IE! You may be shiny and new, but you're still as secure as a sieve!
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Posted by Leon
@ 4:23 PM
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