Re:Firefox 3.5 Now the Most Popular Browser Worldwide
by rick_2047 on Monday December 21, 2009 @12:01PM
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Its fascinating how decisions taken by companies can have such a long term effect. MS decided to give away IE for free before Mozzila and even now some how IE6 has a major market share even though Mozzila has a much better product
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Re:Firefox 3.5 Now the Most Popular Browser Worldwide
by rick_2047 on Monday December 21, 2009 @12:01PM
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A very interesting incident
In October 1997 Internet Explorer 4.0 was released. The release party in San Francisco featured a ten-foot-tall letter "e" logo. Netscape employees showing up to work the following morning found the giant logo on their front lawn, with a sign attached that read "From the IE team ... We Love You". The Netscape employees promptly knocked it over and set a giant figure of their Mozilla dinosaur mascot atop it, holding a sign reading "Netscape 72, Microsoft 18" representing the market distribution.