IE at core of Microsoft's next-generation Web plan
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
The browser isn't everything when it comes to Microsoft's platform strategy for next-generation Web applications, but it remains key, Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said Monday at MIX 06.
Microsoft made a mistake in waiting to build new innovations in its own browser technology, Internet Explorer, Gates admitted.
"In a sense we're doing a 'mea culpa' in saying we've waited too long for a new browser release," Gates said during his talk to kick off Microsoft's first show for designers and developers of high-impact Web sites. "We are very immersed in the browser as a platform." Microsoft's lackluster attention to the browser allowed competitors like Mozilla with Firefox and Opera Software ASA to challenge IE's dominance in the browser space.