Comments on: Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 to be abandoned? http://www.tomrafteryit.net/internet-explorer-7-beta-2-to-be-abandoned/ Tom Raftery, social media consultant, speaker, blogger and podcaster Fri, 16 May 2008 20:12:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Stewart http://www.tomrafteryit.net/internet-explorer-7-beta-2-to-be-abandoned/#comment-8449 Stewart Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:57:25 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/internet-explorer-7-beta-2-to-be-abandoned/#comment-8449 The key feature of ie7 isn't tabbed browising, you "super users" have never watched a non technical person browse if you think that's a key feature, they really don't care about the number of windows open or the amount of memory used by the browser, they sit there and open up as many windows as the links that they've clicked on take them, is it an improvement sure, but the 95% of users that have never seen tabbed browsing will become familiar with it through ie7 and MS. The real key will be RSS and again this will be the first time that a majority of users will use RSS, the implementation in ie7 is vastly superior to the Firefox experience, (which frankly sucks big time) so in again my opinion RSS in the eyes of the consumer will invitability be associated with ie7 and Microsoft. That's the key feature, and that's the one that will holding off firefox long enough for vista and the real death of the browser. The key feature of ie7 isn’t tabbed browising, you “super users” have never watched a non technical person browse if you think that’s a key feature, they really don’t care about the number of windows open or the amount of memory used by the browser, they sit there and open up as many windows as the links that they’ve clicked on take them, is it an improvement sure, but the 95% of users that have never seen tabbed browsing will become familiar with it through ie7 and MS.

The real key will be RSS and again this will be the first time that a majority of users will use RSS, the implementation in ie7 is vastly superior to the Firefox experience, (which frankly sucks big time) so in again my opinion RSS in the eyes of the consumer will invitability be associated with ie7 and Microsoft. That’s the key feature, and that’s the one that will holding off firefox long enough for vista and the real death of the browser.

]]> By: Dennis Howlett http://www.tomrafteryit.net/internet-explorer-7-beta-2-to-be-abandoned/#comment-8283 Dennis Howlett Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:17:36 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/internet-explorer-7-beta-2-to-be-abandoned/#comment-8283 There's a huge upside to MSFT abandoning IE7 - which I have given a run - not impressed but more importanlty, I think it will confuse existing IE users. Anyway - if IE7 is properly decoupled from the OS then MSFT does itself a huge favour. It's the lock-in people object to. MSFT might as well give this baby up because FF is stealing, eating and digesting their lunch as it is. In doing so, MSFT signals to the outside world that the browser can't be realistically owned and should be kept as open source. And oh by the way- we're concentrating on getting it right in our core business. It might encourage more WAMP. Which would be a good thing for everyone. Except possibly Steve Ballmer - who probably thinks: 'Hang on, what did I miss here? We bundled the two and said IE was basically free - what went wrong?' Hint Steve - 'bundled.' An interesting potential side-effect *might* be that malicious hackers would lose focus. In a 3 or 4 way splt between say IE, FF, Camino, Flock (as examples), where would you be putting your hacking effort? There’s a huge upside to MSFT abandoning IE7 - which I have given a run - not impressed but more importanlty, I think it will confuse existing IE users. Anyway - if IE7 is properly decoupled from the OS then MSFT does itself a huge favour.

It’s the lock-in people object to. MSFT might as well give this baby up because FF is stealing, eating and digesting their lunch as it is. In doing so, MSFT signals to the outside world that the browser can’t be realistically owned and should be kept as open source. And oh by the way- we’re concentrating on getting it right in our core business.

It might encourage more WAMP. Which would be a good thing for everyone. Except possibly Steve Ballmer - who probably thinks: ‘Hang on, what did I miss here? We bundled the two and said IE was basically free - what went wrong?’ Hint Steve - ‘bundled.’

An interesting potential side-effect *might* be that malicious hackers would lose focus. In a 3 or 4 way splt between say IE, FF, Camino, Flock (as examples), where would you be putting your hacking effort?

]]> By: Make You Go Hmm: » Comprehensive IE7 beta 2 review [12 screenshots] http://www.tomrafteryit.net/internet-explorer-7-beta-2-to-be-abandoned/#comment-8251 Make You Go Hmm: » Comprehensive IE7 beta 2 review [12 screenshots] Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:33:05 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/internet-explorer-7-beta-2-to-be-abandoned/#comment-8251 [...] Loren links up a list of IE7 addons Jeremiah Owyang conducts a podcast interview with the IE team. Nathan points some important details like: “Do not reinstall Windows after installing IE7. Instead, uninstall IE7, then reinstall Windows, then reinstall IE7.” Tom Raftery points out the clever timing of a recent PC Mag column by John Dvorak that suggests Microsoft should abandon IE altogether and fix the OS security issues [...] [...] Loren links up a list of IE7 addons Jeremiah Owyang conducts a podcast interview with the IE team. Nathan points some important details like: “Do not reinstall Windows after installing IE7. Instead, uninstall IE7, then reinstall Windows, then reinstall IE7.” Tom Raftery points out the clever timing of a recent PC Mag column by John Dvorak that suggests Microsoft should abandon IE altogether and fix the OS security issues [...]

]]> By: Eoghan McCabe http://www.tomrafteryit.net/internet-explorer-7-beta-2-to-be-abandoned/#comment-8240 Eoghan McCabe Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:07:06 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/internet-explorer-7-beta-2-to-be-abandoned/#comment-8240 John Dvorak has a point. Why so much effort into IE? Why not make a new branch of Firefox with an IE-style interface and any particular adjustments they feel are so important to Vista? Seriously. And they should keep this branch open source too if they want to win some "hearts and minds" (along the lines of <a href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/04/24/how-microsoft-can-shut-down-mini-microsoft/">Scoble's</a> ideas). It's time for Microsoft to stop being too big to back down or admit mistakes. John Dvorak has a point. Why so much effort into IE? Why not make a new branch of Firefox with an IE-style interface and any particular adjustments they feel are so important to Vista? Seriously. And they should keep this branch open source too if they want to win some “hearts and minds” (along the lines of Scoble’s ideas). It’s time for Microsoft to stop being too big to back down or admit mistakes.

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