IE6 offers little that wasn't present in IE5, and the many useful features in Mozilla 1.0 (tabbed browsing, anti-popup features, speed, stability, and security) mean that IE will be losing a significant amount of market share very soon.
These features are always mentioned as the key advantages over IE. Let's see:
tabbed browsing: Will Microsoft really do this? In Office, they give you the possibility to display all your open documents in the system tray - I can't even turn it off! And if they do this: how long will it take them? Until IE6.5? This won't last for long as an advantage for Mozilla and Opera
popup-blocking: hmm... I don't see them doing this either. They have probably lots of bindings with commercial sites that use pop-up ads, and don't want to lose this. So my idea is that they wont do this, and follow the idea the ReplayTV and TiVO guys say: blocking ads is stealing
speed: Face it: IE is fast. OK, it may be unfair that it's libraries are loaded when you load Windows, but for the average user, the end result counts: a IE window opens in a instance
stability: I don't use IE very often, but I think they are getting better and better. One problem (certainly in my Win98, don't know about others): if it goes down, it takes everything with it. Kinda selfish, not?
security: Again, the average user doesn't care. He may sometimes visit WindowsUpdate, and get some patches, but only because they tell him so, not because he cares.
Don't understand me wrong: I always use Mozilla. But I understand people who prefer IE.
I could be wrong (and lose karma because of that), but I think a lot of what we are going to say here is already discussed in Free Software at Risk Under Lemon law.
This story appeared earlier on Slashdot (but only in the Science section). If you want to know the hours, you can read the NASA article, or be lazy, and select one of these links:
Slashdot Mirror
These features are always mentioned as the key advantages over IE. Let's see:
Don't understand me wrong: I always use Mozilla. But I understand people who prefer IE.
I could be wrong (and lose karma because of that), but I think a lot of what we are going to say here is already discussed in Free Software at Risk Under Lemon law.
Not all mirrors have this notice. So the mirror you visited needs an update.
If the other links are overloaded, you can read the story on my site. Maybe other mirrors should be posted in this thread.
Hmm... June 9 - gives me plenty of time to pack my bags...