Microsoft says Firefox not a threat to IE
Quoted from
a CNET article :
"Because IE is ubiquitous, you hear a lot more about it, but I don't think that Internet Explorer is any less secure than any other browser out there," English said.
Anyone reading a security list can see that IE is full of holes. This is not because there are a lot of users, this is because the program has a very bad design.
Vamos said that although he has heard other people mention the competitive threat posed by Firefox, he doesn't see it as a problem.
"I'm not sure that that is the reality. I have seen comments around that, but there is nothing I can refer to that really supports that," he said. Instead, Vamos said, consumers need to be educated about all the features already offered by Microsoft's browser.
"We probably need to do a bit of work to communicate the features that are in IE," he said.
Vamos, who admitted he has never used Firefox, said there is a lot of hype surrounding the open-source movement and that if Microsoft's customers wanted new features, they would have told the company about it.
How can we take seriously what he is saying if he didn't even take time to run Firefox one time, and see what features are avaible ? Does he really wants us to believe that people are happy with popups openning on some website ? Does he really think we will beleive that the problem is that users don't know what features are avaible in IE ?
This is MS and they are still lying.