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IE The Great Microsoft Blunder?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-a-shining-example-of-engineering dept.

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.'"

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  1. It's the JEE, stupid! by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    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.

    A browser is a Java Execution Environment capable of executing local and remotely stored programs. That's what Microsoft wants to ensure they retain control over. Otherwise you could write in Java and run it on any device that can support FireFox and cut out Microsoft entirely.

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  2. Re:Definitely not 0 profit... by ehrichweiss · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    who in the bloody hell would mod the parent "Insightful"!?!?!? Funny, maybe. I think I have to agree about some newbs getting their mod points for the first time ever this week.

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