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IE The Great Microsoft Blunder?
JordanL writes "Hot on the heels of the beta rollouts of IE 7, comes an editorial from John Dvorak declaring IE the biggest mistake Microsoft has ever made. From the article: 'All the work that has to go into keeping the browser afloat is time that could have been better spent on making Vista work as first advertised [...] If you were to put together a comprehensive profit-and-loss statement for IE, there would be a zero in the profits column and billions in the losses column--billions.'"
No, Dvorak talks crap about things he doesn't know jack about.
If you want speculative, head to Cringely's website, there you'll have speculations and "sometime right, sometimes wrong", backed up by sentient reasonings. Dvorak is not speculative, he's just stupid.
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I can configure that to whatever I like in my browser. There's no convention. That's YOUR convention, but not necessarily mine.
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Personally, I always thought M$ was big on ownership - at least only at the grunt level. Management never wished to "own" anything but their stock.
It makes people do stupid things, like buy crap they don't need and fatten the bourgeois who peddle the made-by-slave-labour-in-China shit.
Like religion, marketing serves no useful purpose in life, and this is why marketers should be retroactively aborted.
But you seem to be defending marketoids, so you must either be one of them, or worse, you're one of those slimy bourgeois who use their services to peddle your useless crap (it must be useless, because if it was useful, it would sell itself).