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By Thierry.Lefort
via tgdaily.com
Published: Dec 24 2008 / 14:22

if Net Applications’ numbers are somewhat correct, then it is clear that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) will end 2008 with a historic market share loss in a software segment Microsoft believed was key to its future business in the late 1990s.
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Topnotch replied ago:

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Key MS todo list for IE in 2009:
1. SECURE IE
2. Create a simple plug-in architecture for IE similar to Firefox.
3. Dump active x control support aka SECURE IE
4. Dump Browser Helper objects aka SECURE IE
5. If you must keep active x or Browser helper objects make 'em run in a VM aka SECURE IE
6. SECURE IE
7. SECURE IE
8. SECURE IE
9. SECURE IE
10. Did I mention...SECURE IE?

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rv49649 replied ago:

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Action item for MS in 2009:

1) Dump IE
2) Adopt Webkit
3) Contract out to have a new browser built around that (keep existing MS developers off that project)

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