Comments on: IE’s most critical flaw -

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 06:41:37 +0000

to true!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 23:50:39 +0000

micro$soft doesnt have a thing to bitch about. its made its money already

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:26:46 +0000

I believe there were recent reports that MSIE was down to 47% of the entire browser market….

Firefox will take over… no malware can be run (no activeX, unlike opera) and It’s got so many cool extentions.

Now if they’d only keep theming and extensions consistent across revisions…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:24:43 +0000

put the adblock extension in there too, and you’ll be even happier.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 06:35:59 +0000

I agree re: the again part…I guess my point was that if there is the perception of competition, then this may serve MS well in future anti-competition battles, this would then support the theory that MS is intentionally letting IE tank – for now.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 03:18:17 +0000

Hey TT: You say, “it seems to have made the author think competition is alive and well again in terms of browsers – for now”

au contraire – there IS no competition worth speaking of at the moment. Firefox and Opera are just nibbling around the edges. I don’t know about ‘again’ either: there never has been much.

I was trying to say competition is now starting to happen. But maybe I should have said ‘could well mean’ instead of a flat-out ‘means’.

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 02:58:12 +0000

It’s been theorized that MS would let IE go into the toilet for awhile to lessen the charge of anti-competitive behavior by allowing them to say to courtrooms around the world ‘Look, we don’t have a stranglehold on the browser market, there’s no reason to decouple IE from the OS now is there judge?’

And, by this comment in the story “And that’s great. It means the Microsoft monopoly is being shattered, which in turn means competition…” it seems to have made the author think competition is alive and well again in terms of browsers – for now.

thoughts….?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 26 Sep 2004 23:26:38 +0000

My son put firefox on my comp. very easy to use, web pages load much faster. It’s got a pop up blocker that is wonderful, and easy to use.