Monday, October 04, 2004
Microsoft's internet browser gets caught in its own web
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1318333,00.html
Microsoft's internet browser gets caught in its own web
John Naughton
Sunday October 3, 2004
The Observer
Here's the puzzle. Whatever one may think of it, Microsoft is a smart, rich, pathologically competitive organisation. It employs very clever people, and prides itself on producing software with more features than the competition. So how come it has allowed its browser - which, after all, is for many users the application they use most - to languish like this? IE hasn't changed much in five years, which is an
eternity in the software business.
Why?
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Microsoft's internet browser gets caught in its own web
John Naughton
Sunday October 3, 2004
The Observer
Here's the puzzle. Whatever one may think of it, Microsoft is a smart, rich, pathologically competitive organisation. It employs very clever people, and prides itself on producing software with more features than the competition. So how come it has allowed its browser - which, after all, is for many users the application they use most - to languish like this? IE hasn't changed much in five years, which is an
eternity in the software business.
Why?
more @ URL
