While in the shower this morning, I heard a radio commercial for the release of Internet Explorer 7. Microsoft’s marketing blitz is in the works. Keep in mind that this is a marketing campaign for what is ostensibly a free product. I guess it is important to them, having lost about 10% of the browser market to an open source product.
The IE development team apparently also sent a cake to the Firefox team to congratulate them on the shipment of Firefox 2.0 today.
February 6, 2007
Even with a 10% loss they remain a 800 pound gorilla. Recently they have moved on to Vista which is sure to come bundled inside. Sure it’s a free product, but so is FireFox which makes tens of millions a year through Google, etc.