Microsoft says Firefox not a threat to IE
I have just read the article Microsoft says Firefox not a threat to IE.
It’s about Microsoft saying that their browser, IE, is up to par with Firefox and that they are not worried about Firefox taking over its market shares. And they have their reasons too.
“If there are features in our products that are subpar or need to be added, then I have great confidence that we are an organization that responds pretty quickly and effectively to that.”
English reiterated that features such as tabbed browsing are not important to IE users.
For a while I didn’t realise that this statement has indeed no longer apply to me. I’m no longer an IE user (though I use IE for school sites!)
Anyway maybe it’s just me - I find tabbed browsing a very important feature whenever I do web surfing. I hate Open in new window just to view a off-site page; I love to Open link in new tab instead. It just makes everything look or feel more organised, instead of cluttering the IE opened windows in the taskbar, or worse, into a (XP) group. Call it a fetish, but I admit it.
And then I came upon this article, Why I Like Windows as written by the team behind Internet Explorer. You should just check out the comments the readers had given and see why many are abandoning IE for Firefox.
Among the many comments, this is the one that I share the exact same thoughts with! (Let’s just give the security issues a break.)
re: Why I Like Windows 11/9/2004 12:31 PM Jeff Croft
All the great things you mention about IE are precisley what bugs me about it. It’s really hard for me to get excited about Active X controls, IE Extensions, Toolbars, and other superfulous crap when it can’t even render basic CSS properly (hello, :hover pseudo-class? are you there? yeah, didn’t think so.).
If you folks at MS would get your stuff together and fix the rendering engine, I’d be a lot more interested in what other features you might have up your proverbial sleve. My first priority, though, is browsing websites. If sites don’t render properly, I could care less about your damned toolbars.
Right, listen, Microsoft. Internet Explorer is something I (or anyone) could use to explore the Internet with. If it can’t readily render CSS like Firefox(Firefox is not very perfect either, but it can do better.) does, then I’m sorry it’s not exactly what it has been named for. I just want IE to render CSS nicely and I’ll be glad as I won’t have a headache trying to make CSS tweaks just for (previous versions of) IE, which I hadn’t plunged into. :D
So work on it, and stop finding sorry excuses IMHO.
P.S I’m not a Microsoft hater!