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To: Fatalis
"A percentage that declines daily"

A percentage that Microsoft has maintined for over 6 years.
Of course there have always been minor fluctuations when some new browser shows up, but IE's browser always goes back to its rightfull place over 92% when the flaws of the "new" browser begin to show up, as they invariably do. :)

"Will you keep in touch? I love hubris"

Hubris huh?
Here we have the guys with the 4% share, and going nowhere, presuming to dictate to the guys with the over 92% share, then talking to the DOMINANT guys about hubris.
The firefox hype machine is the best example of hubris I have seen in a very long time.
72 posted on 12/08/2004 12:44:55 AM PST by KwasiOwusu
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To: KwasiOwusu
Of course there have always been minor fluctuations when some new browser shows up, but IE's browser always goes back to its rightfull place over 92% when the flaws of the "new" browser begin to show up, as they invariably do. :)

LOL MS was meant to rule 'til eternity. Sure.


Hubris huh?
Here we have the guys with the 4% share, and going nowhere, presuming to dictate to the guys with the over 92% share, then talking to the DOMINANT guys about hubris.

Yeah, hubris. You may not understand it, but you have demonstrated it. Delusions of invulnerability, presumptions of a privileged station, that sort of thing.

No company maintains a 90% market share forever. Bigness brings its own inefficiencies, and declines are inevitable. It will happen to Microsoft, sure as the Sun rises.

77 posted on 12/08/2004 12:53:43 AM PST by Fatalis
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To: KwasiOwusu
Try 89% and sinking fast.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nf/20041124/bs_nf/28622

78 posted on 12/08/2004 12:55:54 AM PST by elmer fudd
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To: KwasiOwusu

firefox = faster page loads
firefox = more secure
firefox = built in spyware guard
firefox = built in pop-up blocker
firefox = tabbed browsing
firefox = lots of great extensions to improve productivity
firefox = lots of great visual themes

IE = nada


82 posted on 12/08/2004 1:06:26 AM PST by Capitalism2003
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To: KwasiOwusu
Here we have the guys with the 4% share, and going nowhere, presuming to dictate to the guys with the over 92% share

Would that be like Microsoft's belated support for TCP/IP? Ever heard of Mosaic?

If we went by marketshare we'd all still be using Netbeui through a protocol converter.

91 posted on 12/08/2004 1:33:50 AM PST by Socrates1 (Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.)
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