Comments on: Now You Can Remove IE From Windows, But There’s a Catch http://www.watblog.com/2009/03/05/now-you-can-remove-ie-from-windows-but-theres-a-catch/ The Refreshing Blog on Web, Advertising and Technology in India! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:34:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Harshal Vaidya http://www.watblog.com/2009/03/05/now-you-can-remove-ie-from-windows-but-theres-a-catch/comment-page-1/#comment-15751 Harshal Vaidya Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:36:41 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/?p=6790#comment-15751 Its not about FF and Chrome being competition enough at all. Its about the 'lazy' factor which they have to fight against. When a user has a software which does their job well (for most users its email and general surfing, orkut and FB) they won't need to bother about installing FF or Chrome unless they are technical or have little leanings towards better technology. Its only the lazy factor which matters here. FF and Chrome are much better and standards compliant too, but they won't beat the IE market only because of pre-bundling. Get rid of that and then see how the demographic changes. I agree with EU. Its not about FF and Chrome being competition enough at all. Its about the ‘lazy’ factor which they have to fight against. When a user has a software which does their job well (for most users its email and general surfing, orkut and FB) they won’t need to bother about installing FF or Chrome unless they are technical or have little leanings towards better technology.

Its only the lazy factor which matters here. FF and Chrome are much better and standards compliant too, but they won’t beat the IE market only because of pre-bundling. Get rid of that and then see how the demographic changes.

I agree with EU.

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