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They've been working on IE7 for Longhorn for some time. In fact, I started
occasionally running a pre-alpha of it almost a year ago.
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"DLink Guru" <rjacobs0spamfree@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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> Thats Capitalism. Why upgrade a product and spend more R&D money when you
> own the biggest piece of the pie and it gets bigger and bigger? There is
> no company out there that will invent a product, then crush the competion
> and then try to out do themselves with a better product.
>
> "Brian Bischof" <Brian@NoSpamBischofSystems.com> wrote in message
> news:ed4GGUJFFHA.2176@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> Isn't it funny how MS keeps updating their software and making it better
>> as
>> long as there is competition in the marketplace, but once the competition
>> is
>> gone they let the product fall to the wayside. When they were trying to
>> beat
>> Netscape they were always releasing new and better versions of the
>> browser.
>> After they won the war they haven't touched the browser. Who cares how
>> many
>> problems and security holes it has, no reason to make it better. When I
>> saw
>> all the attention that FireFox is getting I immediately thought, "Time
>> for
>> MS to release a new browser soon." Sure enough, now they announce a new
>> IE
>> 7. If it wasn't for Firefox being released, five years from now we would
>> still be on IE 6.
>>
>>
>> "gls858" <gls858@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:eRs6nsHFFHA.2460@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>> Thought this might be of interest.
>>>
>>>
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1765169,00.asp
>>>
>>> gls858
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