Gartner Says it's a 2-Browser World

prostoalex writes "In its advisory to the IT managers Gartner says that even though the factors that drive the current Firefox growth are not sustainable, IT departments better get used to a two-browser world. "Concerns about security currently favor Mozilla Foundation's Firefox, but the market tide can shift if security breaches result from increased usage of Firefox", says Gartner and ZDNet adds that "Microsoft must deliver an improved version of its browser in Longhorn if it is to "determine the outcome" of the browser war.""

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Re:New & Improved

[niksoft]

Well, chances are that microsoft will incorporate IE into Explorer, as they did with FTP and such, and all windows users will be stuck with unremovable IE forever, either that or IE will define new standards that deal with their .net junk...

Re:Are transfer caps killing the broadband party?

[Porn Whitelist]

Reply, then on-topic post at bottom ...

You're part of the commonwealth ... so come to Kanuckistan. [tt]Ca-na-da

I'm on an unlimited plan, and I've done 400 Gigabytes (that's bytes, not bits - 3.2 terabits) of transfer a month, and my bill is STILL under $70/month, all taxes in.

And that's for 6.5 Mb/s up, 1 mb/s down.

And it's ALWAYS fast. The system can easily handle 42Mb/s, they've capped it at 6.5, so if you want to subscribe to their digital pvr service, etc., there's more than enough bandwidth.

Just don't use the phone line - the phone company here (Bell) owns the largest porn distributor in Canada (ExpressVu) and doesn't like competition, so if you want to search for "educational materials", ....

Now back on-topic:

Who gives a fuck what Gartner Group says? It's not a two-browser world. It's a "if I want I can make my own browser using readily-available components in a few days" world.

I could use java. Or I could start with firefox, or mozilla, or any other gecko-based browser. Hell, I could do it in Delphi.

If you really wanted, you could steal the #3 position from Opera by making a browser that specialized in sniffing out pr0n.

1. Cost of making your own porn browser: $0.00
2. Cost of distribution $0.00
3. Being able to smile when you say "my browser went down on me": Priceless

Re:2 browsers?

[Crayon Kid]

If the mac mini does well, that will hopefully get into an even better situation and we'll have a 3 browser engine world - Safari (and WebCore that is essentially KHTML) too.

Sorry, mate, but Safari is irrelevant in the browser wars. Apple is still too much of a niche market. I almost feel enclined to say that the Linux desktop is too. If Longhorn Explorer will be everything it should be, it will obliterate competition across Longhorn Windows desktops.

The only thing slowing it down would be people using older Windows versions, assuming Microsoft doesn't port it to them too.