Microsoft's bastard child: IE

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Aron Schatz
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September 30, 2004
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Reading some news articles, it seems that the media thinks that Microsoft is not paying attention to IE development anymore. News.com has the scoop. No major releases in a couple of years... Who cares? IE seems good enough as it is, and if they released a new version of IE, say hello to a wealth of new security risks.

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At the heart of the controversy is Microsoft's longtime insistence that the browser isn't a standalone piece of software, as it is most commonly thought of, but merely a feature of the Windows operating system. In future releases of Windows, starting with the long-awaited Longhorn, Web browsing functionality will be embedded deeply within applications, reaffirming the Windows interface rather than the browser as the center of the computing experience.

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