Well, nobody ask me directly but here's my opinion....


Internet is .... well, Internet. Browsers are related to it, but not exactly the creators or developing needs.

As far with the question in matter, Internet will be the same even if M$ doesn't give you IE anymore or even if M$ leave to be what it is. Other different question will be "if" novice users will use internet in the same way they do now.

But, lets ask why they're "novice users" and no geeks? Back in that days (1996) geeks where pasioned people by informatic software, content, tecnology and some others stuff, as is it today, the element of "novice" were born when the software (IE by example) came with the user-friendly philosophy which isn't bad.

Now, if we took IE, or M$ what left? alot of things to use and with a bit of luck, the novice concept will be dismissed

Try to compare what is Internet or what could it be without IE or M$ in this days is pointless just because Internet is a monster that have grown alot in last years and keep going.

Even when the Internet (as Internet) started, IE was not a need, there was netscape, even Nexus and some plain browsers that let you access the content that exist in that moment. It wasn't pretty (flash, desing, usability, accessability.....) it was plain text, there was the ftp and telnet channel and some others stuff, but they weren't coming usin IE, just protocols and IE wasn't the only software that understood them.

Now, what if we remove IE.....users will let Internet access atemps or will look for other access methods? will those users still novice or will became geeks?

On the other hand, well, the ISP is forcing you to use their browser because IE dies, doesn't exist anymore.....As many choices as exist today, you'll be force to use ISP's browser? Not at all, just download other.....

Internet includes the World Wide Web, FTP, broadcast, telnet, SMTP, SSL, SSH and so on.....will all that change or be inaccessible just because IE is no more with us?.......is hard to believe, at least to me




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