[Reserved] Firefox is astonished to force Microsoft to re-consider IE strategy
The Firefox, which is developed by the Mozilla Foundation is a fast running speed, and integrated with IE with Microsoft's IE. Firefox installation is very fast, and it is free. The release time of Firefox 1.0 is November 9th, just a little more than a month, its download volume broke through 10 million mark. To date, Linux is the most successful open source project, but its success is mainly in the backend system. Firefox makes open source software from the background to the user's family. It is almost perfect, and it is easy to use like IE. The most attractive thing is that it has a greater immunity to viruses, worms and other malicious code. Microsoft has always seen the close integration of Windows as an attractive feature of IE. It is true before security that is not the main threat to the user. Firefox is located on Windows, and the operating system is independent of each other, and the President of the Mozilla Foundation is called "natural barrier". After winning the browser war in the mid-1990s, IE's market share has fallen for the first time. OnStat.com, the global survey conducted at the end of November, IE has less than 89%, which is less than 5 percentage points from May; Firefox has a 5% browser market, but also continues to grow. Microsoft is responsible for the supervisor Gary of Windows Product Management, said Microsoft plans to launch new products to deal with Firefox challenges. He believes that after the user considers the various factors that choose IE, they will not give up IE. In 1995, the net view browser was the synonym of the Internet. IE had not attracted how many users, but Microsoft made an adventure, but from the strategy is a wise decision: redesign IE, although this leads to IE 3.0 Extension has been introduced, but its technology has greatly transcended net browser. In the browser war, better products will always win. Now, it is necessary to redesign the code that IE is IE, Firefox has become a simple challenger code. Netscape donated its code to the Mozilla Foundation, and the Mozilla Foundation has finally created today's Firefox 1.0. Microsoft is currently available to IE users can only be progressive security improvements. Microsoft claims an important security feature in WINDOWSXP SP2, that is, when the user downloads the code, IE will consult the user's consent. Bruce, the technical director of Counterpane Internet Security, Bruce, did not hide his dissatisfaction with Microsoft. He said that when my mother encountered "you want to download the code?", She chose "Yes". He said that this function of Microsoft is unhealthy. It does not have any negative impact on the code that the user reminds the downloaded code, just ask the user to download, and push the responsibility to the user. He suggested that users don't use IE, he uses Opera together, and he is also trying Firefox and calls it as a "great alternative product". Continue to use the security of the "old era" code that is not fully considered, Microsoft can do this. It no longer develops an independent version of IE, but allows customers who are constantly upgrading the operating system to use the new version of IE, I hope that users who continue to use the past version of the Windows operating system will not have a new version of IE. In the current browser market, the Firefox contrast in 2004 was the 2001 IE, and the best is very obvious. =============== News Source: Computer World
