Marketshare Woes For Microsoft

Being the biggest isn't necessarily best. Microsoft's mega-market share has made it target to thousands of viruses, security exploits and other hacker chicanery.

You know that Bill cried himself to sleep the day that US CERT released this statement:

"There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies relating to the IE domain/zone security model, the DHTML object model, MIME type determination, and ActiveX. It is possible to reduce exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a different web browser, especially when browsing untrusted sites."

CERT otherwise recommends users to set security settings to high and disable JavaScript.

I suspect my mom would probably say something like "you mean there are other web page thingies other than the internet?"

Which would be her way of asking if there were other web browsers other than Internet Explorer.

Yes, Virgina, there are other web browsers.

Mozilla is a free web browser developed by a volunteer army of programmers. It's not Internet Explorer - it's actually different, and may take a little getting used to.

If you like to visit sites with Flash animation - this browser can't see Flash... yet. However, a recent (June 30th) announcement states that Macromedia, Adobe and others have embraced and open API project which will lead to the developement of a Mozilla flash plug in.

"Hey, I work in search engine optimization" - ;) - "how am I supposed to know my Google PageRank?

Don't worry - just go over to PRgooglebar.org and get the toolbar that will let Mozilla and Firefox browser show you PageRank.