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Office 08 isn't better than Office 07 wtf it's missing HEAPS of features 07 has.
It's missing VBA stuff for Excel as well as some MS-Exchange based features. Both things I don't have a need for.
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Just compare this with Ubuntu. How often is each new version released? Oh, every six months or so. This ranging amount of time allows the job to be done properly, without the various time constraints held by larger companies. Sure I'm sure that within the development teams of projects such as Ubuntu they have their own internal schedules, but this doesn't have the wide spread media attention and pressure that a larger business such as Microsoft does.
It's very unfair to compare Microsoft Windows to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is a Linux distribution consisting of other packages developed and maintained by other companies - they aren't writing an entire operating system, but instead are essentially encapsulating other applications/packages in one nice neat shell - it's a lot easy and it's why they can have a turn around time for new releases of months instead of years without any major problems at all.
Granted a lot of work is happening over the Ubuntu side, but it is nothing near as much work as being done in Microsoft Windows, or Mac OS X (it being built on top of a unix based OS, but majorly redeveloped along the way in terms of the GUI and everything too)
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IE, is an abonamation, i dont care how you look at it... it is. And the fact that they STILL arent fully (IE8 i think is going to, IE7 is better, but still bad) abiding by W3C's web code rules.
Microsoft can't just go "hey.. let's go all W3C compliant" - if they could, they would do it at the drop of a hat. It's not a viable solution for them because it would essentially break a lot of the Internet for those using that version of IE.
The majority of web based corporate/enterprise applications are designed to work within Internet Explorer - because it's the browser you will find in enterprise businesses.
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As any web developer knows, IE is damn annoying, you have to make extra bits in all your code so it looks at least half right in IE.....
Not really, if you know what you're doing you don't need to "make extra bits in all your code".
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Cant remember who said this, but they said that IE is the most used browser.... acctually FF is..... belive it or not. Google it.
Cool. What were they smoking? There is NO way that Firefox has a higher market/usage share than Internet Explorer overall. Not even remotely close.
I can come along and tell you that the most popular browser to
http://www.mybboard.net/ is Firefox (52%) compared to IE at 35%. These results
are extremely bias. The kinds of people you'll get visiting that site are technically orientated, are web developers/designers and things like that - they aren't the end user.
Anyone who tells you that Firefox is more popular is basing it off bias statistics from one or more targeted sites - not the general market.
