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Firefox Leading Microsoft In Internet Browser War


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This month Microsoft and Mozilla released new versions of their Internet Explorer and Firefox internet browsers.

Surprisingly, Firefox seems to be leading early on in the download race, and it's been more of a hit with the critics.

"Within 24 hours of the official launch on Tuesday, there were over 2 million people using Firefox 2, and we were seeing a peak rate of more than 30 downloads per second from our website," said Firefox developer Mike Beltzner in a post to his personal blog.

Read more at The Age

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You have to figure @ 70% think their computer is a typewriter and MS comes pre-installed and demands updating. Undoubtedly the update notice mentions it will help secure their computer.

It's hard to explain to people that have no internal perception of what they want their computer to do.

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