Microsoft employees ponder the fate of Internet Explorer
This is an interesting article talking about Microsoft employees lamenting the fallen state of Internet Explorer. It seems that a lot of people in M$ are dissatisfied about the lack of new features and support for new standards. It has not been updated in any significant manner for the past 10 years. I guess this speaks volume about what lack of competition does to a product.
Frankly speaking I have been using Firefox since the days it is still known as Firebird, and I must say, there is no turning back now. I cannot live without tabbed browsing and all the neat extensions that Firefox has. I have look at IE7 beta 1 and I think it sucks. The interface take up a lot of valuable screen real estate and the RSS support is obstructive. Microsoft is really losing it.
The only time I seriously need to use IE is for my stockbroker's online portal and I have been bugging them to support alternative browsers for years. Looks like they are finally doing something about it.
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