Microsoft Fights Back

Information Week recently completed a survey of consumers, businesses and partners about Web browsers. And Microsoft responded today with a Wag Ed letter sent to Info. Week. Of course, they never mention Mozilla or Firefox by name, but keep the IE mantra going in the letter, saying (among other brands of bullshit) that people should "visit this Microsoft web page to learn more about the hundreds of add-ons that this community has created. In addition to these extensions, customers have built thousands of line-of-business applications on IE." So, um, their business depends on their customer add-ons, not on selling product?

The kicker is this little note at the end:

"The IE team is in the process of developing the browser for Longhorn, the next version of Windows. It's too early to provide a list of specific features..."

Yup, we're building for the future. Yes, we are. But we just can't tell you what we're building, even though it was supposed to ship next fall (in the original Longhorn plans)!!! So, sorry, no help here. Move along.