Just installed Mozilla
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What "most" corporations? I've worked for 3 different large industry corporate offices and we used Unix and Linux along side Windows?
Not even a majority use Windows, espeically in server technology.
Next, if you knew anything about Longhorn, then you know that it's built differently than all previous Windows iterations. Do you realize that in order to run current Windows applications on Longhorn, they will need to be emulated in a Windows emulator? That means Windows will no longer support it's own technologies.
All that work you do for Windows specific, IE specific services will probably fail or need to be re-written. How is that cost effective?
Mozilla is not a "secondary" browser. IE is not the end all of web technologies...in fact, it's not even the best performance or standards wise.
Your moto better change to "please use IE or our won't work anymore..."
People who locked themselves into developing solely for IE and Windows are going to find themselves dead in the water when Longhorn is released.
With the amount of cheap Linux desktop PCs hitting the market, with Dell, IBM, Apple and others following the usage and development of Linux and Unix desktops, people will be moving out of Windows/IE only world.
The fact of the industry is, unless people begin developing cross-platform, cross-browser they won't survive.