Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 12:34 am
Still buggy - look at the tab next to Google's tab.


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That has changed in the last few years in fact. Now even 'regular users' are noticing and switching. Much of that is due to geeky friends and family 'supporting' those users suggesting it, but it is spreading very fast.raghavan20 wrote:Its only we programmers who get annoyed by the problems with the IE and look for more standard and stable browser so as some say, we jump from ie4 ->opera->ie6->Mozilla or something; But the normal users, don't know about all the pains we take to develop proper layouts in IE so they would always use IE.
Not at all accurate.raghavan20 wrote:Microsoft found the first GUI OS and the browser for that. they are the first people in the market and they have a large customer base before any other company made a really good OS or browser.
That ignores the ability of Microsoft to use predatory business practices to shut out the competition, which they have for over a decade. Seriously - read up on how they handled BeOS, Netscape, WordPerfect, Novell, and others.raghavan20 wrote:A company can overtake another established company only if they concentrate on developing an highly user-friendly product with much emphasize to HCI.
Thats not a certainty. Look at Google. MSN is the default search engine on IE, but now Google is used by far more users.raghavan20 wrote:so always, Microsoft will have the largest share of OS and browsers as long as browsers come along with Windows OS.