[WEB4LIB] Firefox revolution over?

[Ross Singer]

Wow, that editorial has a "And I, for one, welcome our new Redmond-based 
overlords" tone about it.

There are a lot of assumptions here (i.e. the rush to market won't bring 
a buggy product; IE7 will be compatible with all of these IE-only sites; 
IE7 will deliver anywhere near on time), but I'm not sure MS can put 
this genie back in the bottle.

I'll admit, I have no idea what will happen to Firefox (although 
Google's seeming financial backing of it makes me think it'll do fine), 
but I think there is enough skepticism and doubt surrounding all things 
MS at this point (by those that make decisions) that I'm not sure MS 
will ever gain back their past market share.  There's a fundamental 
difference right now versus when IE took over the market.  Netscape had 
just sat around with version 4 for too long, however the Firefoxes, the 
Mozillas, the Safaris /aren't sitting still/.  If that makes for a 
better IE, then everybody wins.

-Ross.

Roy Tennant wrote:

>The CNet Anchordesk is claiming that the Firefox revolution is over 
>aborning, due to the announcement that Internet Explorer 7 will be 
>released independent of Windows as early as this summer (in beta). See 
><http://www.cnet.com/4520-6033_1-5666404-1.html> for the opinion piece 
>and <http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5577263.html> for the story.
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