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Even if you don't remember the birth of Mozilla  15 years ago , you are certainly benefitting from its consequences. For, back then, ...

The problems of monopolies arising through network effects, and the negative effects of the lock-in that results, are familiar enough. Bu...

A couple of weeks ago I posted the first part of an interview with Brendan Eich, who is Mozilla's CTO. That covered the early years ...

Everyone knows that there are lies, damned lies and Web analytics, but the latter can at least give a feel for what's going on. And the ...

I always look forward to reading Microsoft-funded research, because over the years it's evolved into a kind of game. The results - of co...

Understandably, commentators are getting excited over the fact that according to one survey Internet Explorer has gained browser market sha...

Remember the browser ballot screen that Microsoft agreed to add as part of its settlement with the EU over competition issues? It's happ...

It looks like it's happening : The European Commission will on 9 October 2009 formally invite comments from consumers, software companie...

Whatever you think of the European Commission's investigation of Microsoft for possible anti-competitive behaviour in the browser sector...

The EU is contemplating some further action against Microsoft: Frustrated with past efforts to change Microsoft Corp.'s behavior, Europ...

As well as being a great coder, RMS is a fine writer (he made a number of excellent suggestions when I sent him rough drafts of the relevant...

One of the most contentious areas in computing is whether open source is more or less secure than closed source systems. Open source is open...

I've written before about the parlous state of online computing in South Korea, where practically everyone uses Microsoft's ActiveX ...

There's been a certain excitement in the blogosphere around the release of some figures about Firefox's market share in Europe. Thes...

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Walt Mossberg wields much power in the US, so the following is significant: My verdict is that Firefox 3.0 is the best Web browser out ther...

The European Commission opened a new antitrust probe against Microsoft on Monday into whether it unfairly tied its Web browser to the Windo...

It's déjà vu all over again : Opera Software has filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft in the European Union, accusing it of stiflin...

For many years, the only decent free end-user app was GIMP , and the history of open source on the desktop has been one of gradually filling...

Or so it seems : 1991: Tim Berners-Lee, the acknowledged inventor of the World Wide Web, introduces WorldWideWeb, the first practical web br...