IE7 - It ain't about Firefox, it's about Search!
And You Thought Microsoft Was Going to Sit Out the Browser Wars....
Jupiters David Card points out the patently obvious (though it does need saying) about IE7 - it's got very little to do with Firefox, it's all about Search:
Make no mistake though, this move ain't about Firefox. Well not much. Rather, it's an attempted preemptive strike at Google and, maybe, Yahoo. (And AOL, of course.) It's about sticky apps that blend in desktop search and link to preferred search engines. Personally, I'm not sold on integrating desktop search with Web search for consumers, but that doesn't matter. The competitors all are.
Whether it's a beta or not, IE 7 is about Microsoft getting a new browser into consumer hands - XP users anyway - at least a year before the first one starts using Longhorn. Finally, Microsoft has acknowledged it can't afford to have a sub-par application in users' faces every day because its dev cycle is in lockstep with that of an OS.
2005 was already shaping up to be a hot year in Search and with IE7 on it's way it's set to get hotter...
*rolls eyes*
There's not one thing that MS can offer me with IE7, 8, 10, 200. I'm through with Windows "integrating".... I'll be moving wholesale to linux in the next few months. I haven't yet "upgraded" to XPPro SP2 - and I'm not going to. I use FF, and with FF I don't need anything MS can provide as far as "fixes".
Yup. I'm only one person out of billions. But that's okay - far as I'm concerned, I'm the ONLY ONE THAT COUNTS.
more rolling eyes
The main reason I haven't dropped Windows for Linux is the investment in software I've made over the years and the need to test things in IE.... That and I just don't have time to make the move... I also use Firefox as my primary browser, it's just that much more useful to me, useful extensions, tabbed browsing, and a million other things, without the worries.
I kind of have a general distrust of some of these integrating everything into a end all be all, and I know I'm not the only one.
LisaB
The pressure is on security f
The pressure is on security fixes, not search. Anyway, I'm a little confused - MS's new desktop search tech is Indigo, isn't it? And that's been pushed back so that only a beta will be available with Longhorn. Funnily enough, wasn't one of the Indigo developers at MS some bloke called Mark Jen...
I see you talking
But all I hear is "blah blah blah" :O)
As usual this thread will go into
- Ms is evil
- Linux is good
- IE is insecure
- MS is insecure
- Linux is secure
- Firefox is secure
- Blah
Booooooring. And wrong. But who cares, it's the "done thing" to knock MS and score nerd points with the /. community isn't it?
90% of problems with IE and windows are between the keyboard and chair. The same problems are there with other platforms but are not exploited as much or as publicly.
Daft
Don't talk daft, Chris. Aside from the fact that Microsoft are tortuously slow to cover its exploits in Win32, the fact that IE traditionally allows remote execution of scripts without permission has been a real kick in the teeth for IE users.
"90% of problems with IE and windows are between the keyboard and chair."
True - but it's an already insecure chair to start with.