With the planet in the grip of corporate corruption and global warming and the global economy in a tailspin, good news has seemingly become an endangered species. Yet hope springs eternal.
A wave of neosocialism is sweeping Latin America, led by fiery Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. In the meantime, the IT industry is being revitalized as one of the world’s most corrupt corporations, Microsoft, becomes mired ever more deeply in a quagmire of its own making.
In what may be the hottest high-tech war, a growing number of web browsers are competing with each other, dragging Microsoft’s Internet Explorer down, down, down. The ever evolving browser war increasingly flirts with cloud computing and those darlings of the new economy, netbooks. There’s even talk of web browsers replacing computer operating systems. Where on Earth is it all leading?
Change is in the air, and it's amazingly inexpensive. After all, most web browsers are free, and sub-$500 computers are becoming increasingly common. Cell phones may even come equipped with browsers!
The website Browsers 101 was launched in 2008 as part of an effort to help educate the public regarding web browsers and to promote the adoption of quality web browsers (virtually anything other than Microsoft’s embattled Internet Explorer).
This site is best viewed with Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome or Flock. But if you haven’t upgraded yet, don’t worry – the webmaster may get around to testing it in Internet Explorer one of these days. ;)
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