Will Microsoft Lose The Browser Wars?
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Will Microsoft Lose The Browser Wars?
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As long as Microsoft has the hold on the operating system market the answer is NO, they will hold the lead, just because there is a surge of people using other browsers means nothing. you still use windows and install sofware that uses IE's features to run it's program. with windows XP and 2K if you remove IE, you kill the OS, or if by some fluke you are a programming wiz and make it stable without IE, what are you going to do with a OS that has no guts. how many times have you dropped in a disk and the first thing it says is "you need XXX version of IE or higher" to run it?? people tell me they dont use IE, they have AOL...hahahaha it is a skinned IE 6...they use IE. Mozilla, is a rebirth of the old netscape browser, at one time if you surfed the net, it was on netscape. AOL bought netscape and trashed it's greatness and dumped it after it failed to make a netscape/aol browser...then with not much for alternates to IE mozilla was born from the orriginal netscape browser.....I have used Opera for ages, before it was the "thing to do". anyone that has seen me at ST&T knows i been saying it long before it was a issue for the news services. when you go outside sometimes you can smell rain comming, well if you read(between the lines) you can see whats comming on the net long before it is a issue. you all dont know what bad is yet....but you will soon, i dont want to make idle comments about the future of the net and try and scare anyone, just letting you all know that i have been saying since the source code for 2k and NT were leaked to the net we are in for a rocky future.....i orriginally posted my concerns at ST&T months ago about this and really didnt get any discussion about it. but since that time the internet has been going down hill much faster....tell me i am wrong.
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I agree 100%! I who controls the OS controls the browser. Just think about it. Do you think Microsoft would allow someone else to take over after they comtrolled the market all these years?
So PTO, What do you think about google building a browser? Do you think they will? I'm not sure. If they do, I think it's going to be IE based of just a skinned IE browser. Google built every thing to work with with IE. Even gmail works best with IE.
http://whois.sc/gbrowser.com
Abousltey! But I believe who ever controls AOL will eventually control the market. We all know Windows is going down hill. With Wal-Mart shipping first Linux (Linspire) Laptop I believe the world is changing as wel know it...
Let's say for discussion sake, that google, or anyone else for that matter built a completely new browser and it took off big, everyone used it and it has plugins and everything anyone could think of need wise.
Problem: hackers, script kiddies, ad services, and all the evil that hammers IE will turn on it too. Right now when people think of ways to get you and your information, or get you to see thier ads they do it with IE, Norton,McAfee, Zone Alarm, and a few other things standing in the path to you because it is what the "home user" crowd uses. It is amazing the ways they exploit some of the most odd things like the messenger service. People slurp up BIG NAME software like norton and swear by it, when actually it is about one of the worst i have ever used, non-stop conflicts with other software,(mostly windows it's self). everything seems to walk right in past it.
Like mentioned above, "IF" wal-mart does sell the laptop with linspire at low cost, either MS will drop cost or Linux will catch hold of the home user market and that is history in the making.....people will buy the cheaper system, of course the idiots that buy them will probably load a corp copy of xp on them and nothing really will be gained.
Wal-mart's internet service is AOL in a cheaper form.
I think AOL could develope thier own os with the resources they have and take a strong share of the home user market.
Competition is a good thing, MS needs more to get them back thier toes.
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Me, you and the few people who actually know that is going in the computer world sees Windows going down hill!! Lets face it, the majority of the people have no idea what's going on! When they turn on there computers they expect thier "user friendly windows" to work properly. I know and you know "user friendly windows" is an oxymoron.Originally Posted by Tyler
The biggest problem with linux is the tech support. If you run linux you're pretty much on your own!! I hope that Walmart's linux based computers go over big, then maybe there will be more tech support available. I don't know when or if Walmart's computers will be available in the U.S. According to the article, that's for BEIJING...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_2362618.htm
Hopefully they will make this way!\
As far as AOL goes, I see Microsoft controlling them! There's alot of companies eating away at AOL. They have already bumped heads with Microsoft. They keep doing that Microsoft will end up buying them out. If AOL wont sell to them, then Microsoft will screw them over until they have no choice. That's the way Bill Gates does things!
