Digital Common Sense

Scoble said earlier”

IE team talks about tabs in IE 7

Exclusive: world to end. IE 7 has tabs.

Heh.

There’s a thread on this topic over on Channel 9.

My comment there at the time was “I heard those words directly from Bill Gates’ mouth when he spoke at RSA. Exclusivity and timeliness are vague things.”

That was three hours ago and from the title of this post, clearly I’ve had an epiphany. Or maybe it was just a brain cramp.

For the record, on February 15, 2005, in his address to the assembled masses (and no, the RSA crowd isn’t generally and overly MS friendly bunch), Mr. Gates did assure the large assembled crowd that IE 7 would have tabs. I was there, and believe me, you could here the yawn. You could see it ripple across the room, like fans doing the wave.

It was a yawn then, and it’s a yawn today, but an exclusive one, although I confess I don’t understand the exclusivity piece. I can’t believe Robert really hadn’t heard this as common knowledge before, so there must be some really hot facet we’re missing. I don’t know what that might be.

I know that today I spoke to a large number of people, network and security specialists, who share my reaction. Ho hum. Too little, too late.

All in it all it just leads to me to compare Microsoft to Cisco. 800 pound gorillas telling the market what the market wants. Sure they listen, but do they hear? I don’t know.

I do predict MS is headed the direction AT&T headed years ago. The death knell has sounded more than once in the last couple of years. Just because the death knell sounds doesn’t mean the elephant won’t walk another hundred miles before it falls over.

Just don’t get hit by the trunk when the beast starts thrashing about in throes of death.

Filed by Ken at 5:52 pm under General