wow factor

you see, microsoft is not about creating good things for the rest of us.

Bill Gates never wanted to do anything, nor had he ever interest in having a mission, or something equal esoteric :P

It is about getting rich and powerful.

(On the other hand, if Apple was only trying to get rich or powerful, they'd do business differently than they do, now wouldn't they)

:-)

While microsoft is continuing this snobish type of business, here in the philippines users became more aware thanks to the opensource community who are contineously doin a great effort in promoting software like the best browser we encountered here, firefox, many thanks to the developers. Internet Cafes are booming here, most of them run Windows but personally its not their choice, most games run on windows but if they have a choice, they would rather not use windows and the crashey IE. As we intro other way than the microsoft way, computing life seems more uncomplicated and very easy, its very tedeous using their products. Like IE. I say my vote, Dump em (IE) and they must divert their attention to making the OS more stable!

people like John Pierre Delizo are dangerous because they spew their written vomit in such ways that those who are even less educated (if you could imagine) actually believe him.

first, fireflops stinks. when SCROLLBARS do not appear when content dictates they should - that sucks. when the entire content shifts left - then right - then left again as the page is rendered, that sucks. when they've got a darn good number of hackings against them, well, that sucks. see, software is software and it does NOT matter what "name" is on it (i.e. Microsoft or Firefox or Apple or Linux). It WILL be exploited. Code is developed by HUMANS and if you are going to even try to suggest that the humans coding Firefox are not capable of developing exploitable code, then you're really too far off your rocker to be saved.

Oh, show me the guy who has the gun to the heads of all these people who are running Windows - but "its not their choice". They can buy or download any of the shoddy star-nix operating systems they want to and run them instead and no one would give a damn.

Bottom line is, 95% of the time when IE or Windows or some other Microsoft software "fails", its USER ERROR and trust me - I spent over a decade supporting clueless users and you're right up there with them all John.

Stop the whining, please, its OLD already.

Mike obviously is not a web developer and doesn't know what nightmare it is dealing with ie. Just this week I've lost another 10 hours trying to code a web standards based site for Microsoft's POS browser.
Its problems are that it doesn't implement half the CSS2 standards, requires non standard coding to recognize alpha transparency in .png images. Microsoft should drop IE.