Due to fear of security hidden dangers, Microsoft has strengthened the work of restoring user confidence, in addition to adding a high-quality Longhorn development team to the IE project group, it also specially publishes the developer of advertising to recruit browsers. At the same time, a wide range of network propaganda will request feedback to users.
Signs of temperature rise around IE, Microsoft is ready to release a new browser first before Longhorn is market, but the company refuses to publish a commentary outside of its release, but repeatedly claims that "will give IE Maximum improvement and make it the best web browser for end users, commercial organizations, and developers. "A spokesperson of Microsoft said:" We currently don't have a plan to publish about new news, but advisory feedback and Demand will become one of the future IE versions. "
In IE Book and Ninth Channel, Microsoft is vigorously encouraging users and developers to make IE improvements. In addition to improvements that have been made in Windows XP SP2, developers are mainly focused on the positioning function of CSS, as well as more perfect support for PNG graphics format.
The CSS style gives the website developer and supports the right to control web display. However, the current IE has not fully supported CSS, so that the developers of the website have to spend their additional display code for most users. In addition, the lack of perfect support for PNG formats is also the main source of diseases, "PNG is a fairly advanced graphic format, and it is better than IE on all other browsers." , Free website developer Sean Mitau said.
However, whether the new version will provide complete support for CSS and PNG in the new version is still unclear, because the browser update opinions on consumers generally do not adopt the framework modifications made by the developer.
As part of Microsoft's WINDOWS XP SP2, IE browser has got a major upgrade since two years ago. This upgrade focuses on fixing security defects in recent months, and has added some new features.
The smoke in the browser market makes the industry have such a rumor, that is, Microsoft is planning to make a larger upgrade of IE. Microsoft issued a new, full version of browser is already three years ago, the web development community is increasingly believed that the slow upgrade speed hinders innovation. The free Web developer Robert said that IE has not upgraded three years, and other browsers have been upgraded in the last 6 months. The most weak browser should not belong to companies like Microsoft.
However, Microsoft reiterated this week that Microsoft did not post a new version of IE browser before publishing a new generation of Windows operating systems for a new generation of Longhorn. A spokesperson of Microsoft said that we did not post a new version of the independent IE browser. Our plan is to provide new IE features with the Windows version so that IE upgrades are more close to customers, and reduce the number of customers deployed upgrade packages.
Since Netviews Company was acquired by AOL in 1999, Microsoft's IE monopolized the browser market. Criticism has said that the resulting less competition will hinder the development of browser technology on the PC platform, while browser technology in other platforms has a growing development. Microsoft's counterattack said that the browser is no longer an independent software, and the Windows operating system has had a lot of innovation, which contains the browser feature that end users cannot immediately realize.
Over the years, Microsoft has been expressing "IE is a part of Windows", but some recent events have made people speculate that Microsoft may release IE 7.0.longhorn before the Longhorn has been introduced. The release time has been extended. The 2006 planning time will make IE's "Ditch" up to 5 years.
The number of defects in the IE browser has prompted some industry experts and organizations to suggest users using other browsers other than IE. This also helps Mozilla Firefox, Opera Apple Safari and other browsers have taken the opportunity to expand their market. Market Research Manufacturer WebSideStory said that this summer, IE's market share has declined for the first decline in years. Analysts said that in any case, Microsoft did not release the power of the new version of the independent IE software. Market Research Master Microsoft Research Co., Ltd. said that IE is not a strategic product of Microsoft, it is more important to Outlook or Office and other products.
