why flash MX 2004 doesn't work for the enterprise, yet (wasRe: [Sigia-l] The future of WWW...)

[Karl Groves]

> Same movie different movie theater: IE for Win languishes for half a
> decade
> and is finally killed as a standalone product. If you want upgrades
> and
> better compliance, why, pay up and upgrade to Longhorn, since that's
> the
> only way you're going to get up-to-date browser functionality on
> Windows.
> 
> MS could have led the improvement of the web browser to same level of
> UI
> functionality that any other Windows app has. They chose not to. They
> want
> to sell you another OS, without which you won't get it.
> 
> You want to reward this behavior, by buying into the lock-in?

While I am certainly no Micro$oft apologist, I'd like to remind you of
the fact that an integrated browser & OS was part of Tim Berners-Lee's
grand vision of the WWW. He states this fact quite explicitly in his
book "Weaving The Web". I don't think anyone should begrudge Microsoft
for providing this feature. The problem lies more in the fact that
Microsoft will undoubtedly make it quite difficult (if not impossible)
to switch to using the browser of your choice (Firefox, in mine) and
probably near impossible to remove the integrated browser.


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