Friday, February 18, 2005

The Net's On Fire


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Well. 99 days. Support from a large ISP. Support from companies from Imageshack to Nokia. The largest open-source marketing project in history.

In just over 3 months the tremendous Firefox browser has hit 25 million downloads. Now Microsoft have finally sat up and taken notice. The 2nd browser war is on, Microsoft announced this week that they'll be releasing IE7 before the end of the year. Can they defy the critics and the odds to provide a standards compliant, safe browser or will they fail and let Firefox become the standard. We'll see.

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