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Privacy Matters: Mossberg Says IE 8.0 Trumps Chrome, Other Browsers
Posted Sep 03, 2008 06:30pm EDT by Aaron Task in Computers, Internet, NewsmakersIn response to Google's release of Chrome, Microsoft declared: "people will choose Internet Explorer 8 for the way it puts the services they want right at their fingertips...and, more than any other browsing technology, puts them in control of their personal data online."
This latter point is more than just empty rhetoric, according to Walt Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal's personal technology columnist and co-executive editor of AllThingsD.com.
The latest beta version of Internet Explorer is a "step forward in privacy protection," Mossberg says, citing IE 8's ability to prevent Web sites from collecting your personal data. That level of protection is something neither Chrome nor existing browsers like Firefox and Safari can match, while other concerns about Chrome and privacy have already emerged.
For all the hoopla over Chrome, "the second beta version of IE8 is the best edition of Internet Explorer in years," Mossberg declares in his review. "It is packed with new features of its own, some of which are similar to those in Chrome, and some of which, in my view, top Chrome's features."
For these and other reasons, Google may struggle to crack Microsoft's grip on the browser market share, as we discuss in more detail in part 3. (Click here for part one of my interview with Mossberg.)
8 Comments
Yahoo! Finance User - Wednesday September 03, 2008 08:05PM EDT
a positive comment on microsoft!!! on techticker!!!!??! unreal.
Yahoo! Finance User - Wednesday September 03, 2008 08:27PM EDT
Chrome is built for the future, IE is built for the past...
Yahoo! Finance User - Wednesday September 03, 2008 08:54PM EDT
I take anything "beta" from Microsoft with a grain of salt. Longhorn and Vista were two very different animals, for example. Let's see what the final release looks like, how stable it is, how good it is at privacy protection and how fast it works before we start singing it praises (or pronouncing it DOA). Does anyone know if there will be an OS X release for it? Because every other major browser works with Windows and Mac, and several work with Linux as well (Safari even works with Linux through Wine).
CCC007 - Wednesday September 03, 2008 09:35PM EDT
If Chrome were built for the future, then why doesn't it have the same or better PRIVACY component as Microsoft. You want to know the reason, they want to get in behavorial advertising. They even sell it. Google is over-priced. Start shorting it and you will be a winner.
Yahoo! Finance User - Thursday September 04, 2008 01:04AM EDT
Microsoft is under a lot of pressure to shed some bad perceptions. I think you would find IE 8 to be a solid version marking a turnaround point for Microsoft's reputation for delivering underwhelming software. However, I think Mossberg highlights how great Chrome is. Here is a new product barely a week old going up against a product which has dominated the market for over a decade. I installed Chrome; its user interface is what a browser experience should offer. After years of shoving bloat-ware down their customer's throats, Microsoft is changing its ways but sadly IE 8 is not it. Mossberg missed the point.
Yahoo! Finance User - Thursday September 04, 2008 01:13PM EDT
I'm going to guess that Walt HAS to throw a bone to Microsoft because they advertise on "All Things Digital". He didn't give that strong of a reason to want to use IE. MS has too many negative impressions to overcome. MS has been it's own worst enemy. I'm glad to see them become marginalized.
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