Mad at Internet Explorer
So, Stephen Thorne blocks Microsoft IE from his site and his server. What's the big deal?
BillG says that "You can have as many browsers as you want on your PC, just like you can have tons of music players and things like that. So when people say Firefox is being downloaded onto people's systems, that's true, but IE is also on those systems."
Well, as I've said before, Gates and company really don't get the fact that once your product's lead starts to get incrementally eroded, it's a lot harder to regain that ground than it is to regain ground lost in a big firefight (like the Netscape debacle).
The problem is, once you get into Browser Games, your ability to control the market has moved on. You are, to some extent, always playing catch-up from there on in.
BillG says that "You can have as many browsers as you want on your PC, just like you can have tons of music players and things like that. So when people say Firefox is being downloaded onto people's systems, that's true, but IE is also on those systems."
Well, as I've said before, Gates and company really don't get the fact that once your product's lead starts to get incrementally eroded, it's a lot harder to regain that ground than it is to regain ground lost in a big firefight (like the Netscape debacle).
The problem is, once you get into Browser Games, your ability to control the market has moved on. You are, to some extent, always playing catch-up from there on in.
1 Comments:
While I strongly prefer Opera I think browser blocking is silly. Users won't change browser because you want them to, they will change browser if they want to. All you can do is to get users annoyed at you and lower the quality of your site. Even though IE lacks all the capabilities of more modern standards-based browsers it still can present a page mostly right.
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