[CS-FSLUG] The Buzz Report: IE 7: so much for Firefox - CNET.com

[Frank Bax]

At 07:05 AM 2/19/05, Leon Brooks wrote:

>On Saturday 19 February 2005 03:03, N. Thompson wrote:
> > Once again another c-net article shouts victory from Microsoft
> > without even seeing the product in question yet.
>
>Bill Gates doesn't even know exactly what the final product is
>*supposed* to look like yet. Get the reporter to check the quality of
>the smack they're evidently on. It's probably been cut with something
>horrid.


Once again Bill is selling vaporware.  He believes that consumers will wait 
for MS to deliver on a promise to fix a problem, rather than switch 
software that already does the job.  The sad thing is, many will buy into 
this promise.  What about the usual delays?  Beta of IE7 is promised for 
summer.  I expect IE7 to be too little too late.
         http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/feb05/02-15RSA05KeynotePR.asp
I find it interesting how some "statistics" are presented in this 
article.  Almost half of weekend browsers are using WinXP-SP2 - they would 
not have qualified this statement if the percentage for entire week was 
higher.  Only 77% of businesses surveyed plan to deploy SP2 over next six 
months - what are the other 23% doing - switching to something else?  Note 
that IE7 is for XP-SP2 only and there is no mention of new version for 
non-XP systems.

Frank