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[News] Blake Ross About Internet Explorer, Microsoft

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| That's especially difficult for us, because the goal of Firefox has
| always been just to make things simpler, and making things simpler
| usually doesn't mean adding grandiose new features and making sure that
| the next version has something that identifies it as being new, which
| has kind of been the (Microsoft) Office model to date -- every release
| has to have something new so people know they got their money's worth.
| 
| [...]
| 
| The truth is I think Microsoft is very directly responsible for spyware
| and adware and the pop-up ads in general that proliferated across the
| Web after they abandoned their product. I mean, this is the world's
| most-used software application ever ... and I just think it's
| irresponsible for a company to abandon it simply because they can't
| find a financial incentive to continue development on it.
| 
| [...]
| 
| My answer to that is, how much can you really trust a company that five
| years ago completely left you abandoned? If they do, in fact, succeed in
| taking back some of the market share that Firefox has gotten back from
| them, who's to say that they're not going to disappear again? My issue
| is not so much at a product level; it's at a company level. How do you
| trust a company that left everyone out in the cold for five years?
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