Go, Go, GO Firefox!

The best online source for browser usage stats today is showing that of their five quite diverse sources, the highest percentage reached by IE6 is just 79%. Seventy-nine!! That's down from almost 95% at the start of this year. And the reporting site itself, the fifth of the five sources, is seeing only 45% of users with the accursed browser. Hee hee!!

The Firefox marketing campaigns are working, people are starting to really get it, and the world is looking more and more beautiful every day.

My prediction is that Microsoft will be but a memory in thirty years... have I said that here already? They've got so many baskets, with so many eggs, but they aren't actually dominating in any of them. Sorry - except perhaps with Office, but even that is coming to the point now (surely!) at which development potential is limited, and improvements more and more tend to be merely cosmetic.

The silly old boys at Redmond did come up with a solution (and a good one, so they thought) in charging the earth every year for use of said software... however, they are silly, these old boys, and their idea -- as with all things Microsoftish -- came far too late.

So where do they go from here? They can keep buying up innovative companies and good ideas, but the problem is the fact that there is a dominant player in every market Microsoft has attempted to enter, and each with a product preferred by the public to the Redmond offering.

The most popular web server has always been Apache, with IIS claiming only 20-30% of that market. MS is trying to tout Windows Server 2003 as an application server, with SharePoint linking seamlessly into Office (of course), but who are they kidding? With IBM's WebsShere, BEA's WebLogic, JBoss, JRun, Sun Java Server, Oracle, Sybase, Zope and ColdFusion just some of the major names playing on that field, Microsoft is really just sitting on the sidelines.

And then there's the Playstation. Playstation rocks my world. Does anyone actually own an Xbox? I mean, anyone who doesn't also own a Playstation?

Give up Gatesy. We've got it covered!