Mogwa said:Firefox is an excellent app. I do volunteer work helping the elderly and disabled with their computers in home, and I've lost count of how many times downloading Internet Explorer 7 has been responsible for trashing their operating systems. After uninstalling the browser from hell and repairing the registry, I always advise them give Firefox a try. The only drawback is its reliance on a variety of plugins. Some of the elderly find that feature a bit confusing,
but it's still light years ahead of anything Microsoft has to offer. I'm almost convinced Satan himself runs their programming department.
The problem with Microsoft is that they made a log of wrong decisions early on in terms of auto-run for Visual Basic stuff and so on and so forth. Now, they are locked into keeping things compatible with older hardware and trying to patch security enhancements onto their products.
As much as I criticize Microsoft for its mistakes and attempts to use less-than-kosher methods to defeat the competition, I do not for a moment believe they want to create bad software. But it's not as easy for them to spin on a dime and fix what's wrong.
Apple has it better, because they control the software and hardware and that integration has proven to be the proper way to do things. The iPod and now the iPhone are additional examples.