Have you heard?

[SinbadEV]

I'm using firefox... I might go back to Mozilla Suite but I always found it too slow...

[Neuralize]

Neuralize (at) gmail (dot) com.

[munch]

I am NOT defending Microsoft here, but maybe Microsoft has created some kind of standardization here with its monopolization. That might have been beneficial, but it could also be irrelevant, but I wouldn't know because I'm not a tech-head. Could someone enlighten me?

The thing is there are already internet standards, which most people are happy sticking to. What MS does is implement those standards and then adds their own extensions on which do whizzy things that their marketing people say customers want. That wouldn't be too much of a problem except that MS then makes its own extensions to the standards the default way of doing things (even for things that don't have to be done their non-standard way e.g. ActiveX). That way they can sell their products as standards compliant, meanwhile locking you in to their products because if you switch over to a genuine standards compliant tool you find that the MS specific stuff doesn't work any more.

Ironically there was a point in history a few years back where IE was quite a way ahead of the main competition (Netscape at the time) in terms of implementing standards. It's just that they didn't stick to implementing the standards alone.

Cheers

Munch

[hrmph]

Am I the only one who thinks google sucks? Whenever I need to search for something there are so many fake results; with all these nerds they have been hiring you'd think they would make an attempt to clean up google!

[AF]

Googlenet isnt nearly as interesting as their googlunaplex. Microsoft have mearly monopolized on their monopoly with bundling software. And most consumers cba downlaoding new versions or dont know they exist so it sticks and they gain marketshare.

Whatever you do though, you cant bundle a search engine as readily as a browser or media player, not that they havent tried.