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by James Robertson.
Original Post: This is what will kill MS in the end
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I've said before that the various suits brought against MS were not going to have any long term utilty. What will is the sort of arrogance that creeps in once you think you control the vertical and the horizontal. Have a look at this anecdote from BlogOn to see what I mean...
Anyway, the presenter was doing his pitch in a polished way and at one point he said he wanted to show us a "really cool" feature and he looked up into the audience and said "Show of hands...How many of you use Internet Explorer?". Probably 99 times out of 100 when he asks that question all the hands go up, right? Well first there was a pause and then a giggle and then a whoop of laughter as the audience looked around and realized that NO ONE had raised a hand. The presenter was thrown off his mark, but he recovered and said, "Wow! Okay how many of you wish we'd fix IE so you could use it?"
Still no hands....
MS is losing the leading edge in browser users - this is reflected in the rising non-IE refs in the server logs of this blog as well....
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