On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 19:41:12 -0400 esteemed RV did hold forth thusly:
> That is a ridiculous idea. Most people will stick with what is more or
> most familiar to them irrespective of the product, therefore, since most
> people have become accustomed to IE, they will stick with it.
Well, the survey taken a week after the install could ask people if they
tried Moz and only count the reactions of those who tried it.
Also, the percentage that like it enough to switch ought to show an increase
in each successive test of successive versions of Moz if Moz is improving
significantly from release to release.
If everyone is so wedded to IE that they won't change then that says that its
not worth trying to make a different Win32 browser. However, I suspect that
is not the case and that Moz can be made sufficiently attractive to some
portion of the current group of IE users.
Another approach would be to install Moz and IE on machines that are for new
users and then measure what percentage of users decide they prefer Moz. That
way the IE familiarity bias is avoided. This could be done at schools or
other settings where new PC users are trained.
