Microsoft has falsely portrayed itself as the champion of open standards in the past, notably during its "browser war" with Netscape, only to revert to its old tactics later.
GreenBorder launched in 2001 with "Desktop DMZ" software for Windows that prevents any viruses, trojans or spyware from being installed during any browser session.
In an unlikely, not to mention ironic, twist given its actions during the "Browser Wars," Microsoft has been pushing for a move to open standards that would result in AOLs unblocking access to its buddy lists.
I patrol the borders of my obsessions closely, and between work, relationships and constantly refreshing my browser during Baltimore Orioles games, I felt I had all I could handle.
That was the start of the first Web browser — during his campaign, Bob Dole famously provided voters with his Web site, but gave them the wrong address — and the first year of Fox News and MSNBC, which were equally keen to animate the party base.
Recently, I learnt that the next "service pack" (SP5) will install Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.0, the next version of the browser.Administrators will have no choice, and indeed risk disabling many of the vital fixes the service pack provides if they attempt to remove the browser during installation.
But taken alone, IE8 actually gained more than any other browser during the period (up 20.6percentt), followed by Firefox 3.5 (up 17.1percentt).
Something else interesting in Dotzler's graph: apparently, 10 million or so active Firefox users just stop using the browser during the holidays.
Back in the 1990s during the original browser wars between Netscape and Internet Explorer, one of Microsoft's chief weapons was the ability to bundle IE into Windows as the default browser.
