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Ron Green:

We are currently seeing all kinds of supposedly leaked information and screenshots of MS’s next operating system, Longhorn. This is not due out till the end of 2004 or the beginning of 2005. A full 1 1/2 to 2 years away. Where are all the leaked screenshots and Information on the next version of Internet Explorer? Is there a next version?

Internet Explorer won’t get touched again until/unless Microsoft feels some competitive threat in the browser space, which won’t happen until/unless something far less than the current ~90% of client desktops ship with anything else enabled as a default browser. Faster browsers with fewer security holes and with user-focused features such as popup blocking already exist, but since they’re not bundled and enabled by default, they’ll never be a factor for the huge proportion of end-users (it’s got to be over 75%) who never install any software (besides a game or two and a tax program or maybe that stupid shit spyware Weatherbug thing) that wasn’t included in the box. Simply being better isn’t enough, and if that isn’t sad as hell, I don’t know what is.

:: Dave Walker 12:27 (EST/EDT) [+]

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