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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: cahult on 18 September 2003, 00:40

Title: Setback for M
Post by: cahult on 18 September 2003, 00:40: I haven
Title: Setback for M
Post by: Xeen on 18 September 2003, 00:50: Ok, someone has to explain this to me.

So Microsoft wants to change Internet Explorer, the browser that sadly 90% of the world uses, in such a way that will require billions of web sites to be recoded?

Last time I checked, Microsoft was a so-called software company, an operating system monopoly, an office suite monopoly, and an internet browser monopoly. I don't recall anybody giving them the right to change standards that have been adopted by the world many years ago.
Title: Setback for M
Post by: jasonlane on 18 September 2003, 01:05: Hej Cahult!

yup the Eolas one is quite old (The ActiveWrex patent, right?), the burst.com suit is the one to look out for, major anti-trust implecations.......Again, yawn!

Don't know if you've read this one, I'm sure i've posted it here already, but here goes anyway

BURST.COM vs M$ (http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030828.html)
Title: Setback for M
Post by: cahult on 18 September 2003, 01:45: So you
Title: Setback for M
Post by: notme on 21 September 2003, 22:12: Id love to see M$ screw up IE cos then all the companies will think. Whats more expensive? Redesigning all the websites or simply downloading Mozilla etc?
Title: Setback for M
Post by: Refalm on 21 September 2003, 22:29: quote:
notme: Id love to see M$ screw up IE cos then all the companies will think. Whats more expensive? Redesigning all the websites or simply downloading Mozilla etc?

Hi, welcome to our worderful forums!

First of all, Microsoft isn't doing shit to improve IE now, they're just leaving it, while Mozilla, Opera and Konqueror are improving.

And, how to be sure that most company's will download Mozilla as well?

I've been using Mozilla since 0.9 and it has really improved, and 1.4 is much and much better than IE, and 1.5 is due the beginning of next month.
I see that more and more people download Thunderbird, Firebird and Mozilla for their stability, pop-up blocking, junk-filter and stuff. I only hope that the majority of the people will download Mozilla because it's better than IE.
Title: Setback for M
Post by: The Anti-Microsoft on 27 September 2003, 05:22: quote:
Originally posted by Refalm:
I've been using Mozilla since 0.9 and it has really improved, and 1.4 is much and much better than IE, and 1.5 is due the beginning of next month.
I see that more and more people download Thunderbird, Firebird and Mozilla for their stability, pop-up blocking, junk-filter and stuff. I only hope that the majority of the people will download Mozilla because it's better than IE.

Ooh Mozilla 1.5 is out next month? I'm definitely downloading it!

[ September 26, 2003: Message edited by: The Anti-Microsoft ]
Title: Setback for M
Post by: mobrien_12 on 27 September 2003, 21:05: Actually, I'm with MS on this one. A patent on browswer plugins? Puh-leez.

I can't believe MS failed to mount an effective defense in this case.