Microsoft IE browser is being overtake by Firefox

August 26, "Forbes" The article points out that poor Microsoft. Microsoft this week plans to launch the latest version of Web browser IE8. When Microsoft's open-source rival Mozilla in June launched the latest version of Firefox browser, the Internet is simply a crazy, people in the latest version of Firefox released after 24 hours of downloaded more than 800 million copies.

Microsoft's upcoming release of IE8 may not receive similar treatment. When it IE8 for the release of publicity, behind the Firefox browser developers are also testing a new technology to enhance the Firefox browser's competitiveness. That new technology, known as "TraceMonkey", allegedly sent Firefox can improve the ability of complex applications.

This would enhance the latest networking applications software to Microsoft profitability of the strongest products such as Microsoft Office, and so the threat. Microsoft's business branch in the June 30 ending the fiscal year in operating income reached 12.4 billion U.S. dollars, of which 90 percent comes from the Office product sales.

However, Google does not show weakness. It uses advertising from the network's profit to develop products that compete with Microsoft desktop network application software. Gu voice network application software called the number of users has reached millions of people.

The next version of Firefox may be launched at the end of this year. Mozilla Firefox latest commitment of these applications will accelerate the pace it has in the last week's version of Firefox developers in the integration of a new technology. Now, as Google's Gmail, as the rich Internet application software with a major technology called Javascript page will be converted to applications.

TraceMonkey page can be built on the large number of the most commonly used form of Javascript into a binary code, so there's no need to wait for the computer code conversion, can handle large binary form of code.

This also shows that the Microsoft Network in the battle for another retreat. Microsoft will be more than 10 years ago in its Web browser software bundled into its Windows operating system, which at one stroke rout Netscape. Netscape IPO listing in 1995, lit the fuse network flourish, until today, the network still continue to grow and develop, like Facebook and Yelp as the start-up company launched the service is all browser-based software.

Of course, Netscape has been destroyed under the iron heels of Microsoft's. While Microsoft has been facing the threat of competition because of the Internet bubble burst and diluted, it is clear that Microsoft is not paranoid mad.