Linked by Adam S on Tue 26th Aug 2008 21:32 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
"Poor Microsoft. This week, the Redmond, Wash., giant is gearing up for the next big release of its Web browser, a leap from Internet Explorer 7 to IE 8. When open-source competitor Mozilla released its last update of Firefox in June, the Web went wild: People downloaded more than 8 million copies in 24 hours. Microsoft's release might not have such a frat party feel. Even as it gears up to release IE 8, the developers behind the Firefox Web browser are experimenting with a new technology that sharpens the threat their browser software poses to Microsoft's most valuable businesses. The new technology, dubbed TraceMonkey, promises to speed up Firefox's ability to deliver complex applications." While many have abandoned Microsoft's browser offerings, Microsoft will be introducing an innovative new type of selective privacy mode called InPrivate with IE8.
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2005-11-09
Hmm... lets see if I understand this correctly,
MS's strategy for complex web applications will be silverlight. Silverlight uses .net languages like C# on the client side with nice vector graphic, XML based UI elements, yet some how, turbo charging javascript for javascript based applications is going to kill MS?
The world is moving toward Flex and Silverlight for web application delivery. I don't think MS is really that worried about a super bump in javascripts speed on Firefox.