http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2009/04/07/ec-principle-5-microsoft-must-educate-people-about-other-browsers/ Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:37:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2009/04/07/ec-principle-5-microsoft-must-educate-people-about-other-browsers/comment-page-1/#comment-11981 EC Principles: Synthesis | Easy Firefox Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:29:02 +0000 http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/?p=1341#comment-11981 [...] principles generate a positive response, but feels much more low-key. This includes principles 5, Microsoft must educate people about other browsers and principle 6, Educating people about other [...] [...] principles generate a positive response, but feels much more low-key. This includes principles 5, Microsoft must educate people about other browsers and principle 6, Educating people about other [...]

]]> http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2009/04/07/ec-principle-5-microsoft-must-educate-people-about-other-browsers/comment-page-1/#comment-11851 ¿Microsoft incluirá otros navegadores en Europa? « Mozilla Links en español Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:15:22 +0000 http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/?p=1341#comment-11851 [...] Microsoft debería informar acerca de los otros navegadores, [...] [...] Microsoft debería informar acerca de los otros navegadores, [...]

]]> http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2009/04/07/ec-principle-5-microsoft-must-educate-people-about-other-browsers/comment-page-1/#comment-11826 Microsoft to bundle other browsers in Europe? - Mozilla Links Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:34:03 +0000 http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/?p=1341#comment-11826 [...] Microsoft must educate about other browsers, [...] [...] Microsoft must educate about other browsers, [...]

]]> http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2009/04/07/ec-principle-5-microsoft-must-educate-people-about-other-browsers/comment-page-1/#comment-11655 kmtianxu Tue, 12 May 2009 08:39:11 +0000 http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/?p=1341#comment-11655 Seeking to control that process of interaction is potentially just as dangerous and politically charged as monopolising it in the way microsoft currently do. Seeking to control that process of interaction is potentially just as dangerous and politically charged as monopolising it in the way microsoft currently do.

]]> http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2009/04/07/ec-principle-5-microsoft-must-educate-people-about-other-browsers/comment-page-1/#comment-11618 Andy Newsham Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:00:00 +0000 http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/?p=1341#comment-11618 I use Mozilla on my laptop, and my deptartment at university sticks it on its machines for the same reason - it's more stable than IE (google still have some way to go, too before they're up to fiefox standards) and, I guess, there are far fewer people with an axe to grind trying to make it go wrong at every turn of daily web use. So I am a fan of the browser, and also of Mozilla as an organisation because its commitment to open source, widely accessible software that works properly. But I can't go along with the proposition that microsoft alone is reponsible for the conflation between the internet and their big, blue 'e'. That's like the conflation between hoover and vacuum cleaner: it's not just about the company 'Hoover'; it's about broader patterns of word usage in which words - and symbols take on a life of their own. If the big 'e' means internet to so many people, it is the result of an interaction between them and that letter/symbol, and I think we have to respect that also. Seeking to control that process of interaction is potentially just as dangerous and politically charged as monopolising it in the way microsoft currently do. I use Mozilla on my laptop, and my deptartment at university sticks it on its machines for the same reason – it’s more stable than IE (google still have some way to go, too before they’re up to fiefox standards) and, I guess, there are far fewer people with an axe to grind trying to make it go wrong at every turn of daily web use. So I am a fan of the browser, and also of Mozilla as an organisation because its commitment to open source, widely accessible software that works properly. But I can’t go along with the proposition that microsoft alone is reponsible for the conflation between the internet and their big, blue ‘e’. That’s like the conflation between hoover and vacuum cleaner: it’s not just about the company ‘Hoover’; it’s about broader patterns of word usage in which words – and symbols take on a life of their own. If the big ‘e’ means internet to so many people, it is the result of an interaction between them and that letter/symbol, and I think we have to respect that also. Seeking to control that process of interaction is potentially just as dangerous and politically charged as monopolising it in the way microsoft currently do.

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