[Clave]

Originally posted by Falcon
Oh and btw is there a way to remove internet explorer from ones computer and that MSN messenger?

Just drop it in the bin, then empty the bin, that's what I do with trash...

[Stealth]

Originally posted by karajorma


It's not a matter of resources though. The only field where MS has the edge is in marketing. It's a big edge admittedly but when it comes to technical matters the mozilla team have actually done a better job with much less in the way of resources.

And as I said, unlike last time they won't be sitting around doing nothing while IE7 is being worked on.

as far as R&D they have the edge too over Mozilla.  

Here's my theory of what will happen:  IE7 will be released; Microsoft knows about Mozilla, and i'm sure they're learned a lot from it and incorporated a lot into IE7.  IE7 will outrank Mozilla in terms of features, security, reliability, etc. etc.

Then a few months later, after many releases and betas, Mozilla will again outdo IE7

[Carl]

Originally posted by PhReAk
*snip*

it never gets that bad

[Galemp]

Originally posted by Stealth
Here's my theory of what will happen:  IE7 will be released; Microsoft knows about Mozilla, and i'm sure they're learned a lot from it and incorporated a lot into IE7.  IE7 will outrank Mozilla in terms of features, security, reliability, etc. etc.

Then a few months later, after many releases and betas, Mozilla will again outdo IE7

Not likely; Bill didn't mention any new user features like tabbed browsing in his keynote, only security enhancements. If they do try to integrate new features it will probably be sloppily done. Just because Microsoft has the power to do these things doesn't mean that it's gonna get done. They have market power, that's all they need.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Galemp


Not likely; Bill didn't mention any new user features like tabbed browsing in his keynote, only security enhancements. If they do try to integrate new features it will probably be sloppily done. Just because Microsoft has the power to do these things doesn't mean that it's gonna get done. They have market power, that's all they need.

yes that's true, but the main reason people use Mozilla isn't because it supports tabbed browsing.  most people switched to Firefox because of security and popups, which apparently will be addressed in IE7.

i think i'm actually going to give IE7 a try.

[karajorma]

Never in a million years will IE7 beat mozilla in terms of stability or security. To do that they'd need to redesign it from the ground up and rip out a lot of the links to the OS it has.

I'm not saying MS couldn't do that. I'm saying they won't.  IE7 will be built on top of IE6 and because of MS's habit of leaving code in the executable if the programmer can't figure out what it was for it will probably actually be worse in terms of security and stability.