re: Is Internet Explorer Dead?
I agree with Don, MS is letting so much time pass since IE 6 shipped that they must have something *big* up their sleeve. I'm going to be waiting on pins and needles for Scoble's reply (if he's able to give one). My money says IE7 will be a major upgrade.
For me though, I'm trying to figure out if it will be too late? I've been a faithful Phoenix (now Firebird) user for almost a year now. IE is going to have to do some amazing stuff (like fetch my bagel every morning) to convince me to switch back.
[Listening to: You Often Forget - Revco (8:51)]
Ron Green (SlightlyBent) asks this question on his blog, and Robert Scoble is going to try to get an official answer from Microsoft. But I’m going to go out on a limb here and tell you what I think. Basically, it’s as dead as COM is. Now I know that the answer may seem pretty cut and dry, but it really isn’t. You really have to go back to Don Box’s December 2000 House of COM MSDN article to get an answer to the question, “Is COM dead?” The last paragraph sums it up: