I wouldn't go bragging too much.. considering MS hasn't been really working on IE in years.. and their liable too come out swinging to get their browser market share back.

I wouldn't go bragging too much.. considering MS hasn't been really working on IE in years.. and their liable too come out swinging to get their browser market share back.

GREAT! Seems like, as a consumer, a winning proposition for me. Mozilla has breathed life back into the browser market and forced MS to get back into the 'innovating' game. This leads to new features and a better user experience. Even if IE 7.0 ends up being better than Firefox 2.0 (or whatever the next battle numbers are) that will make me happy because no matter what, we, the consumers, will have a better product in our hands. Seems like a win-win situation.

I agree with tim. I'm a web developer, and nothing boils my pot more that writing a standards compliant website only to find out it doesn't render correctly on IE. Then I end up spending the rest of my time getting the darn thing working on IE, because I don't want to cut out 85% of the market. If FireFox and other alternatives finally force M$ to support the W3C standards, I'll be one happy camper, even if I never use IE again (as I haven't for years, unless I had to).

Good points. Except "easy to install"? The Firefox installer is possibly the worst I've ever seen (except RealPlayer which just assumes total control of your computer).