__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Friday 26 January 2007 12:52 \__
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Monthly Microsoft Patch Hides Tricky IE 7 Download
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>>| Opinion: Microsoft used the January 2007 security update to
>>| induce users to try Internet Explorer 7.0 whether they wanted
>>| to or not. But after discovering they had been involuntarily
>>| upgraded to the new browser, they next found that application
>>| incompatibility effectively cut them off from the Internet.
>> `----
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>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2086423,00.asp
>>
>> How anti-competitive and irresponsible.
>
> They don't care about what happens to the users, they just want the
> stats to show that IE7 is spreading faster than Firefox. You wait, Erik
> F and Tim S will start crowing about it just as soon as Microsoft manage
> to install it without users' permission.
It is about giving users who don't care about choice and won't explore
something with /almost/ parity in terms of functionality. Doesn't this
resemble the way a Microsoft Office monopoly was obtained (and sustained
using lockins... proprietary formats and all... even at the back end, e.g.
Exchange servers)?
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