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Embrace and extend
June 27th, 2004
There’s currently much flapping on Slashdot about a Washington Post (dumb registration required, see BugMeNot) report on the latest security problem with Micro$oft products, particularly the fact that (allegedly) CERT has advised Explorer users to get the hell away from the product and use something like Mozilla.
It pains me to say it, but I’ve got a degree of sympathy for Microsoft - after all, they are the company that everyone loves to hate, so they get more than their fair share of attention from the hackers and the script kiddies. But then that degree of sympathy comes to a rapid end whenever I start thinking about Internet Explorer, because if ever there was a product that demonstrates the attitude of a monopoly, it’s this one. Compared to Mozilla, or Safari, or Firefox or any of the alternatives, it’s light-years behind the curve. Example - I can’t imagine using a browser without tabs, but I can’t imagine when IE will ever get around to them (although I’m half-expecting Robert Scoble to tell me. And incidentally, Robert, for goodness’ sake get yourself a domain name, man - radio.weblogs.hokeycokey2000.gibberish just doesn’t cut it. Scoble.org is available, get on with it. £21.99 from 123-reg.co.uk, you can run to that, surely?) And that’s just one tiny example of how the competition has forged ahead while the IE product atrophies. I can imagine the conversations going on in Redmond - “why bother putting any more development effort into IE? We’ve got 99.9999% market share. We’re the standards, now, baby!”
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You can use http://scoble.weblogs.com/ . The permalinks point to radio.blah.randomnumbersequence but at least it’s a bit easier to remember. But I certainly agree with your point.