More Anti-Microsoft blather from Slashdot:

"Microsoft still has three out of ten people running an old version of its browser more than 18 months after Internet Explorer 7 launched, while Firefox has converted more than half of its users to the latest version in just over a week. That should set a few alarm bells ringing in Redmond."

People always tout how a higher percentage of people don't upgrade Internet Explorer compared to Firefox users... Let me be the first to point out that Firefox pops up a window when there's an update for the thing. Internet Explorer DOES NOT. Now, I know that Firefox 3 doesn't spring a window on you to upgrade from Firefox 2, but let's face it. People who are smart enough to look for other browsers besides what comes on their computer are going to be smart enough to manually update their browser to the latest and greatest. I'm sure if whenever you started Internet Explorer and it announced a new version with a button to automatically download and install, far more people would upgrade (and far more people would complain about Microsoft's intrusive behavior). As it stands, Internet Explorer, as a whole, still counts for over 50 percent of the browser "market share". I don't think alarm bells are ringing in Redmond juuust yet.

Like I said about Intel, AMD caught them napping when they released processors that were more advanced than Intel's, and everyone was cheering and and whipping out the benchmarks to show that AMD was superior. Then the technological marvel that is Intel was startled into the reality that someone was challenging their roost as best chip designer and got busy and blew AMD away with Core 2 and Nehalem. Now AMD's playing catch up... Same thing is happening to nVidia. They've been king of the hill for so long that they've been releasing expensive cards simply because ATI has been playing catch up and nobody wants those cards for performance, but now that ATI is starting to turn heads with their latest cards, nVidia is churning out cards to compete properly. This is what also happened to Microsoft. There were no viable alternatives to Internet Explorer for a very, very long time, so development had pretty much frozen at Internet Explorer 6. Now that Firefox is starting to edge in on their turf, Microsoft made a hasty Internet Explorer 7 that addresses the major security issues, and now they're working on Internet Explorer 8 by making it just about as standards compliant as any other browser. There might have been alarm bells in Redmond before Internet Explorer 7 was release, but I don't think they're very worried about the amount of people who upgrade. After all, the people who complain about the shortcomings of Internet Explorer are going to be the ones to upgrade anyway, so it doesn't matter... Of course, we all know there's going to be the handful of holier-than-thou fanatics who won't even give IE7 a chance to prove its worth, and still think they have the knowledge to complain about what's wrong with the Internet Explorer line.

All in all, the Firefox community needs to focus on fixing their own browser and stop trying to mimic Apple with the whole pointing and laughing at your competition. It seriously cheapens anything you have to offer.