Business 2.0: Microsoft’s Worst Nightmare
Just getting back from a few days on the road. Owing to a buggy power supply, I haven’t been able to access the Net in nearly four days. It’s amazing: here I am, around plenty of people, with full access to television, radio, newspapers and humans, and I feel completely disconnected from the world….
Business 2.0 has an article on the Firefox browser, headlined (in the typical far-fetched and sensational way) Microsoft’s Worst Nightmare. While I definitely evangelise the merits of Firefox to anyone willing to listen, it’s going to be a while before any David can take the Goliath down. Still, this article does go over a lot of the progress made recently with the browser, concentrating on the contributions of the 19-year-old wunderkind Blake Ross. While it’s nothing extraordinarily detailed or new, it’s a good summary for those folks not following this exciting story (well, “exciting” to techies anyway).
On related news, I see that the SpreadFirefox campaign to purchase a full-page ad in the New York Times for the release of 1.0 (on November 9th) has been an incredible success. Still time left, if you want to see your name in print in the NYT as a contributor. It’s a brilliant idea, and very well executed; the team should be proud.
October 25th, 2004