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Microsoft Wins Browser War, Abandons 'Innovation'

Posted by michael on from the freedom-to-stagnate dept.

rocketjam writes "Web developers are expressing frustration with Microsoft's apparent abandonment of its 'operating-system-integrated' Internet Explorer web browser. An article on C-Net points up the efforts of the Web Standards Project as well as Adobe Systems to prompt Microsoft to fix long-standing Cascading Style Sheet bugs in IE as well as continuing to add other improvements which have virtually ceased since Microsoft won the browser war. While alternatives such as the Mozilla Project and the Opera browser still exist, their marketshare is miniscule." In a related story, an anonymous reader points out that the bugs aren't just in rendering, they're security holes as well: "iDefense and eEye have basically said that Internet Explorer is full of holes and just surfing the Web using it is "unsafe". There's 31 un-patched holes in IE, but MS won't talk about it... It took them nearly a month to roll out a new patch after this one was found to be more or less useless."

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  1. fuck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    microsoft

    1. Re:fuck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Re:Microsoft

  2. In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anonymous cowards avoid "Innovation" in their First Posts!

    1. Re:In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      and Dubya is dumb as a brick.

      And yet somehow still managed to outsmart dull as a stump Gore for the Whitehouse. And now the democraps have lost Ca as well, it couldn't be because people are finally fed up with the BS the liberals spew could it?

    2. Re:In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Outsmarted Gore?

      That's a good one!!

  3. Be patriotic. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Join the army.

  4. There is a reason it's called Internet EXPLODER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There is a reason it's called Internet EXPLODER.
    Natalie Portman, on a trip to Soviet Russia, examined a Beowulf cluster of hot grits and stated "I for one welcome our new BSD overlords"
    and then quickly restated for the soviets: "in Soviet Russia ... ...ahhhh...crap...I got nothin'

    TDz.

  5. Screamers! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did you ever pause and think how loud a person can scream, say for instance when they're being whipped with a strap of fine leather or maybe even when they're extremeties are being scorched by red hot metal? If so, have you thought about how loud a person might scream just because he or she felt like screaming? Would a scream winding it's way from a person's very lungs, through their throat and out their mouth be even louder when it has been induced by anger instead of pain? Could someone neither under the pain of torture nor harboring any untoward feelings towards their peers surpass their screams just because that individual wanted to scream loudly?

    Jack Brody had perfected the art of screaming. Whenever he felt like it he would throw his head back, suck in as much air as he might into his extremely well-trained lungs and then issue forth a scream both high-pitched and yet unwavering, very, no extremely painful to the ear. Brody did not need a reason to scream. He just felt this burning urge in his lungs that wanted to break free, that wanted him to direct the delightful vibrations the air made in his throat at the ear drums of whoever chanced to pass him by on this January morning. Oh, did it feel good! Oh, DID! IT! FEEL! GOOD!

    1. Re:Screamers! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I don't know about you, Walmart but hey, I just like posting shit to confuse people? I also put up the vile stories about child abuse with a linear accelerator on that google article. I don't know. I guess I was feeling a little sexual that morning. Personally I prefer giving radiation to older women's chest :-) I think sunburned breasts are soooo sexy, they definitely turn me on. Oh but I disgress, we weren't talking about sunburning elderly ladies with almost lethal doses of radiation to their breasts and armpits (Did you ever have sun-burn in your armpits?), we were talking about posting shit on slashodotto just to confuse the mortals. Well, whatever then we were talking about, nuff said. Catch you later and be sure to freckcheck my consfusticating strokies in that google post""""

  6. Yay, typical Slashbot misquotes by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sigh. You do know he never said that about 640kb, don't you? It's an urban myth.

    It wouldn't have mattered if he had said it, anyway. In 1982, 640kb WAS enough for anybody.

    --
    "Sufferin' succotash."