What if Mozilla were to win in the end?:

Another story from "BlogOn2004" today.

Some folks from Microsoft were presenting on the fine work they've done with Channel 9

Anyway, the presenter was doing his pitch in a polished way and at one point he said he wanted to show us a "really cool" feature and he looked up into the audience and said "Show of hands...How many of you use Internet Explorer?". Probably 99 times out of 100 when he asks that question all the hands go up, right? Well first there was a pause and then a giggle and then a whoop of laughter as the audience looked around and realized that NO ONE had raised a hand. The presenter was thrown off his mark, but he recovered and said, "Wow! Okay how many of you wish we'd fix IE so you could use it?"

Still no hands....

Informal survey afterwards said the Windows users in the crowd were all using the latest Firefox. Wouldn't it be amazing if Mozilla ended up winning in the end?

{from DivaBlog}

Dept. of Homeland Security Says to Stop Using IE: "I have been saying this for a long time but now it is offical. From Yahoo News: 'The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team touched off a storm this week when it recommended for security reasons using browsers other than Microsoft's Internet Explorer.'" In related news, "According to Wired, the widespread Internet Explorer security exploit last week and CERT's subsequent recommendation that IE users should consider switching to another browser has resulted in a large spike in downloads of the Mozilla Organization's Mozilla and Firefox web browsers."

{from Slashdot}

Its good to see Mozilla getting some mainstream attention. Its by far a superior browser to IE and much more secure.

Micro soft has post an article in their Knowledge Base on steps you can take to protect yourself from spoofed URLs in IE, Outlook, and Outlook Express. AMong other things, they suggest you stop clicking on links and type them instead.

I've got an idea, how about not using IE and start using Mozilla instead. I just love how M$ won't fix their products and inconvenience the hell out of their users.

Waiting for IE7? Keep waiting, because you won't get it until Longhorn comes out in 2005 or whenever M$ decides to release it. Meanwhile, Mozilla will continue to improve and innovate leaving IE in the dust. I've been using Mozilla as my primary browser since 2000, and used Netscape before that back to 1995.

microsoft wants to be a better search engine than google. why can't microsuck keep their grubby little fingers out of every single corner of the market? if someone does it better than they do. according to MSN's search site: "More people use MSN Search than any other search service*". if that's the case, why go after google? these guys need to take some of that $6 billion and buy a clue.