Fear of the Fox
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Tech pundit Chris Pirillo nails it. Microsoft may not want to admit that the reason it is releasing Internet Explorer 7.0 is due to (more) potential customer defections to Firefox. But Pirillo and many Microsoft watchers aren't fools. The Jupiter Research folks have another theory: That IE 7.0 is also linked to Microsoft's lust for search-engine market and mind share. That might be true, too. But the big reason that Redmond's rolling out a version of IE before Longhorn is mainly due to fear of the Fox. |
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I am tired of hearing that Microsoft is the enemy. Has anyone ever thought, maybe Microsoft is trying to satisfy their customers? Look at it this way; Microsoft's major customers (Ford etc.) may have major re-development, -deployment costs associated with a move to Firefox, a cost that Microsoft could save them with the release of a standalone IE7.
Posted by Martin Van Den Bossche | February 16, 2005 9:09 AM