If everyone abandons IE and switches to another browser. Microsoft's loss of revenue is exactly zero. If everyone switches to IE, Microsoft's increase in revenue is exactly zero.
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You are confusing short-term revenues with long-term product strategies. If Microsoft were able to keep the usage of IE over 90%, then Microsoft effectively controls the evolution of the web.
Now that FireFox has broken Microsoft's stranglehold on the web, Microsoft is [finally] starting to make noises about being compliant with web standards (instead of the web being compliant with Microsoft's proprietary "standards").
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It is a fairly useless study designed to do litle more than generate headlines by focusing on pop software. Do people "choose" IE because they think it will protect their privacy, or do they use it just because it was bundled with the OS? What percentage of IE users have expectations of privacy in their use of IE? With IE's track record, anyone using it has neither expectations of privacy nor security.
Since it appears that the author of the "study" chose the browsers to test based upon popularity, the "researcher" based the survey upon the mistaken assumption that popularity is an indication of security perception.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer, as the mos tpopular browser, disproves tha tpopularity does not equate to the perception of security.
A better basis for the selection of browsers would be to select those thought to be secure. That would eliminate IE and Safari at the start, and it might even add Opera.
I've run MySQL datase servers on my websites for nearly 10 years without one problem. Tens of thousands of hits per day. No problems. MySQL is always there, and always working.
I only can wish that my desktop Windows were one-hundreth as reliable.
So let me get this correct. Microsoft's determination whether or not there would be an exploit was correct less frequently than if they had just randomly chosen yes or no, and Microsoft calls that good performance?
With such low standards of good performance, it is no wonder that the software coming out of Redmond lately has been so horribly poor.
Identical thread counts at the kernel level suggest to Kennedy that Windows 7 is a 'minor point-type of release, as opposed to a major update or rewrite.' .
It may be a mere minor point release technically, but marketing-wise it is going to be a double jump in major version numbers.
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There was a thread about the R language a couple of weeks ago. Look it up and read it....
... you'll be arrested. I'll be looking for a job as a penetration tester
Like molasses, here in the nutmeg state we all move a little more slowly in the winter.
Connecticut's site has been very slow to non-responsive since the week before Christmas.
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Best Practice #1 - don't use Ruby on Rails. It is a dead end.
So tell me, why is listening to your users and customers a bad thing?
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You are confusing short-term revenues with long-term product strategies. If Microsoft were able to keep the usage of IE over 90%, then Microsoft effectively controls the evolution of the web.
Now that FireFox has broken Microsoft's stranglehold on the web, Microsoft is [finally] starting to make noises about being compliant with web standards (instead of the web being compliant with Microsoft's proprietary "standards").
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It is a fairly useless study designed to do litle more than generate headlines by focusing on pop software. Do people "choose" IE because they think it will protect their privacy, or do they use it just because it was bundled with the OS? What percentage of IE users have expectations of privacy in their use of IE? With IE's track record, anyone using it has neither expectations of privacy nor security.
Yip - the study it what it is.
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As, it appears, did the "researcher". So what does that say about this "security" study?
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You prove my point. Thank-you.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer, as the mos tpopular browser, disproves tha tpopularity does not equate to the perception of security.
A better basis for the selection of browsers would be to select those thought to be secure. That would eliminate IE and Safari at the start, and it might even add Opera.
... what else needs to be done?
instead of remaining stuck in the Windows past.
I guess it is Raxco's PerfectDisk to defrag my disks from now on....
... programming languages are religions.
. (5 insightful???) Well thats kind of harsh.
I've run MySQL datase servers on my websites for nearly 10 years without one problem. Tens of thousands of hits per day. No problems. MySQL is always there, and always working.
I only can wish that my desktop Windows were one-hundreth as reliable.
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Does anyone remember those Windows 2000 source code comments that leaked a few years back?
We should not punish Open Source for being Open Source. We are a community. OK, more like a family at Thanksgiving, bickering and such.
With such low standards of good performance, it is no wonder that the software coming out of Redmond lately has been so horribly poor.
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It may be a mere minor point release technically, but marketing-wise it is going to be a double jump in major version numbers.
Better computing through marketing.
... with 254 of the cores being used for DRM.
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Alaskans are not like us folk in the continental 48.
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Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.
Is Microsoft Outlook going to screw me over once again during this time change? How many meetings will I be an hour late/early for this time?
Yeah, I wasn't sure if it was redundant or not. I didn't have the time to wade through all of the other similar comments before posting mine.
Probably because 95.87% of the web is Internet Explorer compliant.