Microsoft is making a big mistake...oh well
Microsoft's security and management product manager, Ben English:
A particularly funny statement by a Microsoft official:
Microsoft also dismisses tabbed browsing--which is by far the most useful feature about Firefox (to me)--because they are "not important to IE users."
My guess is that's because Firefox only commands 6% of the browser market--not many people know about tabbed browsing. I find it absolutely invaluable. Once the world sees the possibilities of they can do with a browser (a la Firefox)--besides what IE offers--plus the security and speed this new kid on the block offers, Microsoft will eventually have to "open mouth, insert foot."
UPDATE: Some stats on Firefox vs IE, July-Sept '04.
Browser market share: Firefox 6%, IE below 90%
Total security vulnerabilities: Firefox 21, IE 13
"High Security" vulnerabilities: Firefox 21 (52%), IE 9 (69%)
Average time to fix a publicly-announced vulnerability: Firefox 26 days, IE 43 days
"Because IE is ubiquitous you hear a lot more about it, but I don't think that Internet Explorer is any less secure than any other browser out there."Ahem! Have you even used Firefox, Mr. English? I doubt it; Bill Gates would probably strangle you... Anyways, I know from experience that IE sucks and Firefox blows it out of the water like Michael Moore doing a cannonball. Microsoft officials nonchalantly deny the reality, however:
Vamos said that although he has heard other people mention the threat posed by Firefox, he does not believe the threat is real.Like what? Slow browsing, script bugs and improper loading of HTML? Every single time I viewed this blog in IE it screwed up the HTML, and about 2/3 of the time when I used it to view my Yahoo mail.
"Im not sure that that is the reality. I have seen comments around that but there is nothing I can refer to that really supports that," he said. Instead, Vamos added, users needed educating about all the features already offered by Microsofts browser.
A particularly funny statement by a Microsoft official:
"I dont agree is that just because a (competing) product has a feature that we dont have, that feature is important. It is not. It is only important if it is a feature the customer wants. There are plenty of products out there with features we dont have. We have plenty of features that our customers dont use.Isn't that the point? If Microsoft only spends time on features its users want, then why do you "have plenty of features that our customers don't use"?
Microsoft also dismisses tabbed browsing--which is by far the most useful feature about Firefox (to me)--because they are "not important to IE users."
My guess is that's because Firefox only commands 6% of the browser market--not many people know about tabbed browsing. I find it absolutely invaluable. Once the world sees the possibilities of they can do with a browser (a la Firefox)--besides what IE offers--plus the security and speed this new kid on the block offers, Microsoft will eventually have to "open mouth, insert foot."
UPDATE: Some stats on Firefox vs IE, July-Sept '04.
Browser market share: Firefox 6%, IE below 90%
Total security vulnerabilities: Firefox 21, IE 13
"High Security" vulnerabilities: Firefox 21 (52%), IE 9 (69%)
Average time to fix a publicly-announced vulnerability: Firefox 26 days, IE 43 days
posted by Seth at 5:21 PM
1 Comments:
Microsoft has lost touch with a lot of it's users. But the company doesn't know it, and neither do the users. That sounds strange, but true.
Users accept whatever Microsoft gives them because they think "There's nothing else I can afford and that's as good." So they keep using whatever Microsoft gives them.
Microsoft says "Because our users are using this, then they must like it, and therefore we will keep doing things this way." But users are only accepting the thing because they think they have NO OTHER CHOICE.
Firefox is the first step to Window users to start realizing there IS choice. They can have the opportunity to choose something else, something better. Perhaps a little later they're realize the operating system itself isn't so great (check out www.linspire.com for a good (cheap) alternative to Windows).
But just you wait. There is one thing Microsoft excels at: detsroying it's competition. This usual involves sueing, buying out, or taking the idea of someone else and calling it "theirs". That's how they are, that's why I won't buy the next version of Windows.
I refuse to (knowingly) support a company that won't fight fair. If they want to stay top dog, they need to make *better things*. If they won't do that, I won't support them. :P
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