if ms keeps on their path they should send every ms user a free hard drive just to store all their patches & fixes on, cause its ridiculas how much space they take up.
---------------------------------------- From: Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 11:18 AM To: CF-Talk <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Internet Explorer 7 (no really!) On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:39:37 -0500, Adrocknaphobia wrote: > 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, I think they said a _beta_ will be ready this summer for 2003 and XP > 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. I think Firefox is a threat. The product is gaining market and mindshare over IE pretty consistently, and if they want to stop it they have to act now not before it gets to 30 or 50%. MSs plan (I think I read this somewhere but cant remember) is to get everyone off the browser and write apps with their avalon thing anyway (kind of like Flex for the desktop, but probably more complicated with engineered in vulnerabilities). I'd even say MM is a threat to MS at this point (unless they are playing footsie under the table) The more people that get hooked with complex apps in the browser the more they'll have to convert later. But MS says the only reason I've heard they are upgrading is because "their customers asked for it" (like they listen to them ;-D) I'd bet IE7 is not going to be anything grand - it's going to be catch up like it almost always is. They'll just add the basic features that are in firefox so that the IE crowd who now say they don't need tabbed browsing can say they love IE for its tabbed browsing > 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. I wouldn't say happily which is kind of the point ;) -- ~Blog~ http://www.robrohan.com ~The cfml plug-in for eclipse~ http://cfeclipse.tigris.org ~open source xslt IDE~ http://treebeard.sourceforge.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:195074 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=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
