“Any released information stating your commitment to modern coding practices–meaning XHTML, CSS, XML, not to mention full PNG support?” asked Web designer Brady Frey in response to Hachamovitch’s blog posting. “Aside from security, this has been the reason why we’ve dropped IE’s usage company wide–I have the choice of building one Internet application for all users, or one for IE users. We don’t want to waste money doing both anymore.
Brady J. Frey, web designer and creative director of dotfive as quoted in a CNET News.com article entitled Reversal: Next IE divorced from new Windows, published February 15, 2005.
Well, there’s competition in every place that we’re in. The browser space that we are in we have about 90 percent. Sure Firefox has come along and the press love the idea of that. Our commitment is to keep our browser that competes with Firefox to be the best browser — best in security, best in features. In fact, we just announced that we’ll have a new version of the browser so we’re innovating very rapidly there and it’s our commitment to have the best.
Bill Gates in an interview with Peter Jennings on ABC News held February 16, 2005. Emphasis mine.
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