Well well, look who’s trying to get back into the browser game:
[ http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/15/technology/microsoft_browser.reut/index.htm ]
Apparently MS decided it’s time to ditch the service packs and patches and stop riding their popularity and come up with an entirely new browser to address the massive security issues in the current iteration of Internet Explorer.
While it looks like Bill Gates committed to the release of IE 7, he didn’t give much indication on when it would be, or whether or not the featureset would be comparable to other broswers like Firefox and Opera, one reason why
people are switching so quickly to them. Microsoft has claimed that they’re switching focus and energy to security, and even that’s debatable. But security isn’t everything, now let’s see if Microsoft has it’s eye on usability and attractiveness as well.