FireFox Burns Internet Explorer’s Market Share

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[ShadowAce]

see my #117

[RobRoy]

Thanks. I'll give that a try.

[Clara Lou]

You've been proved wrong multiple times already. #117 is the most comprehensive example.

[Tortenboxer]

Are you actually saying that charities and churches are evil? I hope not.

This is a completely different matter. Charities care for the poor who cannot pay for the things they need.

Wrong. I steal nothing. Stealing implies that what I take is no longer available to the original owner. I think we can all see the fallacy of your statement there.

OK, let's put it this way: You don't steal, but you infringe on other people's copyrights by downloading content from their websites without them getting paid for it, which is conceptually comparable to stealing.

Since socialism means the state (or other central authority) controls everything

If you cannot make money from your work because others give things away for free, your work gets devaluated. How can you compete with a free product? In the long run, there will be no incentive to be creative or innovative at all, because you cannot earn a living from it. That's typical of socialism. In the end there will be one standard browser (which is free), one standard operating system (which is free), etc. It will be the end of the software market.

Of course, when you're unemployed, you will have lots of time to work on free software. But who will pay your bills?

[Petronski]

I'd rather stick with IE, because that's the way to keep the computer secure.

This a late entry--and solid contender--for most idiotic post of the year.

[Tortenboxer]

#117 covers a different topic. I'm still waiting for your proof that IE is a free product. In fact it is NOT free, because it's sold as an integral part of another non-free product.

[Clara Lou]

IE has been FREE for years. It was free about 10 years ago when Netscape was its major competition. It's always been free. Where have you been? There's never been a charge for IE.

[Tortenboxer]

IE has been FREE for years. It was free about 10 years ago when Netscape was its major competition. It's always been free. Where have you been? There's never been a charge for IE.

The charge is hidden in the price of Windows.

OK, let's look at a different example: Homeshopping. I'm sure you've seen those offers: "If you buy product X, you'll get product Y for FREE!" Anyone with a basic understanding of economics will tell you that product Y is not really free as long as you have to buy product X to get it (or be able to use it)!

[Clara Lou]

The charge is hidden in the price of Windows.
Then, can you tell me why IE is free to Mac users? No Windows there-- It's on my iBook running OS-X. IE was free before they decided to associate it with Windows. It's still free. Why don't you dial up MS and ask them how much they charge for IE? They'll tell you IE is FREE.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

From the article:
"The controls that form Internet Explorer are a core system service in Windows"

Another reason why Microsoft's idea of creating a unified experience for users rather than creating a platform that allows users to run tools of their choice to do the things they want is such a bad idea.

[Tortenboxer]

Then, can you tell me why IE is free to Mac users?

Because it's old! IE 5 is 1998's technology. There's a lot of obsolete stuff you can download for free.

Initially, IE for Mac was given away for free in order to prevent Netscape from gaining market share on the Mac. But development has been discontinued.

[Clara Lou]

There you have it-- you said it yourself: IE is free. Bye.

[Egg]

It has the added benefit of a cool mascot. What would IE use for a mascot?

[NZerFromHK]

I switched to IE in 2002 because at that time I was still running a granny P(I) 150 MHz Dell. My Netscape Communicator 4.79 was extremely slow on all sites that use Shockwave Flash (and that meant most sites even in those days). IE's performance was much smoother and so I was forced to switch to MS (but still it was sluggish if you have multiple flash ads).

Now I have got a new computer, I'm not sure if I will keep using IE though.

[NZerFromHK]

I set my homepage to Google.com rather than my ISP's internet service home page (with all the clutters). They don't put news on the homepage (yet), and it's reasonable clean as far as web pages go.

[misharu]

I switched last night after hearing and reading about here on FR. I love it already! It is a lot like IE but without the security hassled. I would suggest trying it out!

[freedomcrusader]

The cool thing is that the default "Firefox" start page IS Google.

[chimatt1969]

this was to be expected.... firefox is much more userfriendly than IE

[Tortenboxer]

you said it yourself: IE is free.

That's not what I said.

Nothing that's coming from Microsoft is free. Microsoft is a company doing business. Everything they do has only one goal: money.