Browser more important than desktop apps?
Jonathan Schwartz blogging for Sun posed an interesting question to an audience recently :
… at a keynote, [I asked] the audience which they’d rather give up – their browser, or all the rest of their desktop apps. Unanimously, they’d all give up the latter without a blink.
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[...] think IE7 is the most important part of the new OS. Some say IE is legacy and MS should leave it but it seems like they’re doing a [...]