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The timing seems good for a Windows launch; they're about to launch IE8, so there's going to be a bunch of marketing buzz about how much fun it is to upgrade yo

The timing seems good for a Windows launch; they're about to launch IE8, so there's going to be a bunch of marketing buzz about how much fun it is to upgrade your browser. As they say in various marketing books: The best place to open a carpet store is often right next to all the other carpet stores, where the customer who is looking for a carpet will see you on his way in or out. Similarly, the best time to come out with a new browser is just slightly ahead of your competition's big browser marketing push. The other advantage of doing Windows first is that the win is bigger. The users of dinosaur browsers are all Windows users. Moving an IE user to Chrome is a huge win for Google -- now all Google's apps run better on that machine. Moving a Safari user to Chrome might barely be a win at all, since they're both Webkit based.

SwellJoe 18y ago
Now this is the first good argument I've heard. The fact that pretty much all the people using crap browsers are running Windows means that any effort to get people onto better browsers ought to be focused on the Windows platform. I think you may have just convinced me. When it is being presented as "Windows killer", it makes no sense to further increase the strength and maintain the popularity of Windows by providing new products only for Windows. But, if the purpose is merely to "make life easier for web developers" and enable modern applications for as many people as possible, then Windows would be the perfect first target.
- mechanical_fish 18y ago
  As a Web developer, I don't care if Windows lives or dies. But I want Internet Explorer killed, and the sooner the better. It's costing me and my clients a fortune, in time and in frustration. If it weren't for Dan Cederholm and John Resig IE might have driven me to drink by now. [1] [1] I should say "John Resig and the entire jQuery community". Bless you all!

SwellJoe 18y ago

Now this is the first good argument I've heard. The fact that pretty much all the people using crap browsers are running Windows means that any effort to get people onto better browsers ought to be focused on the Windows platform. I think you may have just convinced me. When it is being presented as "Windows killer", it makes no sense to further increase the strength and maintain the popularity of Windows by providing new products only for Windows. But, if the purpose is merely to "make life easier for web developers" and enable modern applications for as many people as possible, then Windows would be the perfect first target.

mechanical_fish 18y ago
As a Web developer, I don't care if Windows lives or dies. But I want Internet Explorer killed, and the sooner the better. It's costing me and my clients a fortune, in time and in frustration. If it weren't for Dan Cederholm and John Resig IE might have driven me to drink by now. [1] [1] I should say "John Resig and the entire jQuery community". Bless you all!