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Internet Explorer "Great Microsoft Blunder"?
by Jordan Running Apr 24th 2006 at 8:00PM
Proving yet again that my opinion of John C. Dvorak is
bipolar at best, I must say that I kind of agree with his most recent column, in which he posits that nothing qualifies more as Microsoft's greatest blunder than
Internet Explorer. Browser wars aside, the web browser from Redmond is the source of a great many of Microsoft's
problems. "All of Microsoft's Internet-era public-relations and legal problems (in some way or another) stem from
Internet Explorer," Dvorak says. "If you were to put together a comprehensive profit-and-loss statement for
IE, there would be a zero in the profits column and billions in the losses column—billions." Dvorak suggests
that Microsoft's ongoing obsession with the browser is bad business and that it should yank Internet Explorer out of OS
and immediately cease development. "People will not stop buying Microsoft Windows if there is no built-in browser.
Opera and/or Firefox can be bundled with the OS as a courtesy, and all the defaults can lead to Microsoft.com if need
be," he says, going on to note what we all know to be true: it'll never happen, and Microsoft "will forever
be plagued by its greatest blunder ever."
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Edwin Kluge said 7:53AM on 4-25-2006
I just downloaded IE 7's beta 2 for 64bit professional and it is working great - everything shows up the way it is supposed to not like other browsers.
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Shihchiun said 4:16PM on 4-25-2006
Yeah... that's because everything's designed for IE.
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anthnoy said 8:30AM on 4-26-2006
Didn't read the article, but it's a good point. Exactly what is MS getting out of IE? Just the "pride" of saying they have a browser that is the industry standard. Something that currently controls the development of web browsing so it will be sure to work on their platform. Whoop Dee Doo. That may not be the case for very long.
They should at least open the platform and share features with FF - they have NOTHING to lose.
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