p2pnet.net News:- Firefox’s increasing popularity is seriously alarming Bill and the Boyz.

“In recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Microsoft for the first time acknowledges that Mozilla’s browsers pose a competitive threat and the software giant also notes that security vulnerabilities leave it open to legal action,” says O’Reilly’s OSDirect.

It quotes Microsoft’s annual 10K Form as saying, “Competitors such as Mozilla offer software that competes with the Internet Explorer Web browsing capabilities of our Windows operating system products.”

Microsoft is required to file the form with the SEC but it’s the first time it’s referred to Mozilla by name in a such a filing, says OSDirect, adding:

“Although Microsoft last year named Linux as a competitive threat on the client side, Mozilla’s browsers, particularly Firefox, only climbed out of obscurity to grab 8-10 percent of the browser share after Microsoft filed 2004’s 10K.”

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See:-
OSDirect - SEC Filing Shows Microsoft Fears Firefox, Lawsuits Over Bugs, August 31, 2005

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