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Friday, January 12, 2007

How does Microsoft earn money with Internet Explorer? -

There are many web browsers around already and they are all looking to compete with Microsoft Internet Explorer. What are these web browsers like google chrome, opera, Mozilla, firefox, apple safari, looking for? Are they looking for money? How they are earning the money?________Microsoft give it away for free (Or rather, forcefully bundle it with Windows) to help ensure they maintain control over web standards. While they have the highest market share, they have the greatest (effective) say on how web standards should develop. If they lose this market share then they lose this power. Mozilla make theirs through ads and sponsorships, Opera make theirs by charging, Google are after control. It s not about competing with Internet Explorer, its about being better than it (Which every other browser out there is) and wrestling power away from Microsoft. Day on day the market share for Internet Explorer goes down as people wake up and realise there are better alternatives out there.________Microsoft does not earn money from IE. They earn money from the operating systems, office suite, servers and other major software. IE has been a core part of their operating systems wince Windows 98. You don t have to purchase IE anymore, you have to purchase the whole O/S and get the IE as a freebie. Secondly, a web browser is an essential software, all operating systems now ship with a default web browser -- and users take it for granted. It d be useless for someone to spend money on an O/S that does not have built in browser and multimedia components.________According to me, Microsoft Internet Explorer can just be give-away program for the customers using Microsoft Windows. It is just to promote its business and to its customer an easy GUI environment.________well, ads...they are mircosoft so they do make a lot of money to keep their programs running i suppose.________Software- http://scribling.net/

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