MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: > Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: > >> The below article about firefox 3 appeared in washingtonpost.com today: >> >> #------------------------------------ >> Building a Better Browser: Firefox Keeps Innovating >> By Rob Pegoraro >> Thursday, June 19, 2008; Page D01 >> > > <SNIPPED> > > I'd like to know why one using IE7 would want to switch to > FireFox...since IE7 has the tabbed browsing and similarities to FF. > What's the standout reason? The author mentions tabbed browsing but > that's already in IE7 now. > > Disclaimer: I'm a FF user and don't plan to switch to IE, but I'm > curious as to the argument though. The last IE I used was IE5. I've > been with FF ever since it was named Firebird. ;-) > I have just installed FireFox 3 to my Fedora 8 OS today, and haven't spent much time with it yet. The excitement surrounding Firefox 3, to me, is Firefox commitment to the browser. People have become very comfortable using a browser to consume internet content and internet applications like Googles office. Microsoft would like to change that, and bring the emphasis back to its window desktop, requiring applications and internet content to be consume in Microsoft's .Net. Microsoft dropped the browser shortly after it started pushing .Net. Microsoft only updates IE as necessary to maintain parity for features being innovated by other browsers like Opera and Firefox.
Microsoft big fear is that the internet itself will become the new OS, which can be accessed from any of the current OS today like Linux, Sun, Unix, Apple, etc. Firefox, in its effort to steam the tide of Microsoft who is aggressively campaigning to .Net everything, is even being groomed so it can run desktop applications as well and internet applications and content, so this posses a real threat to Microsoft, who would like to maintain its monopolistic position by forcing everyone into its OS via .Net and office. Regards, LelandJ > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
