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Browser Wars 2: Electric Boogaloo

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the better-than-orc-and-pie dept.

Tomas wrote to mention an article up on XYZ Computing discussing what is shaping up to be another round of the Browser Wars. From the article: "To anyone that has been following the Window's browser news lately, it is apparent that the stage is set for another browser war. Last experienced during the nineties, companies are fighting over which program consumers use to view the internet. For the average computer user this is a very good thing as it should drastically improve browser performance in a short period of time."

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  1. I think I saw a big E by synthespian · · Score: 1, Troll

    I saw a big E (IE logo) in the middle of the article and didn't see the Firefox logo, so I'm not gonna read the rest of the article, because I think this is subliminal propaganda.

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  2. Re:The End of IE by SA+Stevens · · Score: 0, Troll

    IE actually deserved to win the last browser war because guess what, it was a better browser than Netscape

    Only for certain meanings of the term 'better.'

    IE is pathetically bad on platforms not running Microsoft's Windows Operating System (or certain versions of MacOS). The emulation cruft you have to tack on to make it play well on even another Intel-based platform make it a non-starter.

  3. Re:Doubt It by Angelox · · Score: 0, Troll

    It doesn't really matter what MS does-I will always stay as far away from them as possible,I know/remember what they are, and what they have done ever since all this started back in the DOS days.
    I like to think of the 90% Browser users MS has as "Internet Zombies" these are users that only can master their mouse (not the keyboard), so they click away mindlessly.