I retired from personal blogging in July 2008.
But you can find me over at http://blog.xero.com.
There’s an increasing amount of talk on the web about replacing Explorer.
There’s the usual security drivers etc. etc. but to me the real issue to me is ‘why is Microsoft opening the door’?
Explorer hasn’t advanced in several years. Standards support has not improved. Neither have ’simple to add’ features been introduced that would keep consumers happy.
For example adding Tabs to Explorer. You would image that would be trivial as so many 3rd parties are doing it. Microsoft could simply add that without even changing the rendering engine.
Microsoft is usually very good at getting into new areas but the lack of innovation and direction in Explorer is a surprising/puzzling case of just not minding the store.
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