Praise JESUS!
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- cinder0
Are you kidding?
Microsoft has nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Microsoft's entire purpose of creating IE was to edge out competitors, and then take control of the web.
It didn't like the web because, like it's other main competitor (linux) was completely free and impossible to control or market.
Look what they did:
They released IE for free to gain market share
They force-fed IE to Windows users to gain market share
They attempted to prevent other browser makers from getting their software on Windows
They fractured the web by ignoring long standing standards and created their own proprietary ones.
They finally began to 'fix' IE after it gained almost 95% market share
and then they KILLED it. Stopped production on it even though the next 'version' won't be out until 2005 or 2006.
The next 'version' of IE will be built in as a part of windows.
Can you explain to me how it's a good idea that MS will be forcing millions of users to abandon the browser and use THEIR 'internet'.
We don't even know what the hell this 'Avalon', '.NET' and 'Longhorn' thing really is.But I can guarantee you one thing - it won't run on any other operating system.
As for standards -
Well, we're basically f*cked.
Unless somehow, magically, average users start downloading Mozilla on their own we're stuck with current IE6 support for web standards until 2005 or 2006.That's THREE YEARS.
That means that 95% of the web will not get a single update to their browser, not a single bug fix, not a single improvement for 3 years.
If anything good can come of this - it's that people will get pissed and jump ship from IE to Alternate browsers and alternate OS's.
There is no more standards evangelism because the two largest browsers are dead in the water. Period.