Today an important technical writer like Paul Thurrot (a man that knows a lot about the Microsoft's world) has launched a terrible calls: boycott Internet Explorer.
Thurrot exactly said that "My advice here is simple: Boycott Internet Explorer. It is a cancer on the Web, and must be stopped. IE is insecure and is not standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable for both end users and Web content creators".
Words like this from a people like this weights like a mountain... IE is really so terrible? Are all the energy that IE Team is spending in these days to have a better browser and to fight the rivals really unuseful? Is IE7 a looser also before its official born?
Obviously, opinions are different and I'm not here to talk about that but to say what is under the eyes of everyone: IE now is not the dominator, it has lots of great rivals and to take the browser's leadership again a big work must be done. For the moment we're seeing the born of a browser that is totally comparable with products that we've in our hands TODAY (the actual Firefox is not so different from the first IE7 Beta)... is it the right directions? We're testing a Beta product, a product that we'll have officially released in the future, that is totally comparable with a product that we're using now on our machines?
Where will be Firefox when IE7 will be out of the beta stage? I think that someone inside MS (and inside the IE Team) has a lot to start thinking... We need to have a revolutionary browser, not something that is old just before its born.
The life for the IE Team is not so easy I think... 