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Ärende: MS Employees Rage As Internet Explorer Ship Sinks
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From: Mike '/m' <mike@barkto.com>


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No way to build a market: No more Mac users. No more Dell users in the UK. HP's
shipping Netscape. Internet Explorer 7 is the ultimate "me too" knock off. And
nobody's madder than Microsoft employees and fans.

Microsoft employee Rory Blyth:
I think IE is horribly behind the times. When every other browser on the planet
that's worth a damn supports tabbed browsing, it's just crappy that I still
have to have different copies of IE open to have multiple sites open at once.

As of right now, my favorite browser on the planet is Apple's Safari. Windows
Live developer and creator of RSS Bandit, Dare Obsasanjo laments:
We haven't innovated in the browser for almost a decade. Given that Microsoft
views IE as a defensive option to make Windows an enticing product, there is
less incentive to make it the ultimate browsing experience as products whose
bread and butter is the Web browser. Why do you think there are so many Google
employees working on Mozilla?

Microsoft should either cede innovation in the Web browser to Mozilla/Google or
make IE more than just "icing on the Windows user experience cake"by
transfering the product to a team whose bottom line depends on browser
innovation.
A bewildered ex-Mac IE developer Jorg Brown recalls a conversation with a
Microsoft superior:
Over the whole sad journey, the single most surprising thing I ever discovered
was...
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Original article contains links to the various blogs from which the quotes were
taken.

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