A Stroke of Genius

Microsoft has rolled out Internet Explorer 9 - IE9 - to a not so breathlessly waiting world. We use Windows computers at work, though, so I dutifully logged onto the Microsoft IE9 site to see about downloading the new browser for our office. Surprise, surprise, surprise. Guess what does not work with Windows XP? Yup, you guessed it. And guess who uses Windows XP, along with with 40-50% of the rest of the computers in the world? Right again. So all we need to do is go out and buy Windows 7 for all our machines and we're good. Not so fast there, sonny. It turns out that we probably need to buy all new computers to provide enough oomph to run Windows 7. Interesting. The new versions of other browsers, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox for example, all run on XP without a hitch.  Hmmm. Although I'm sure that IE9 is a good product, I foresee declining market share for Microsoft in the browser wars. Way to think it through fellas! BTW, I will be going to Apple for my next business computer because of genius like this.