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From the Clip IE8 development: Microsoft should learn from Apple, Mozilla posted by Scrivs:

To really tackle this problem, Microsoft will need to be a lot more open about its plans for the browser and offer updates far more frequently. Both WebKit (the rendering engine of Safari) and Firefox offer nightly builds, and even the commercial Opera browser has weekly builds available. These regular releases make it much quicker for bug fixes to get into developers' hands, making it easier for them to update their sites now rather than having to wait months between betas.

 

After reading this article I got to thinking if more people would actually consider using Microsoft or even bother with updates if they did weekly builds. It doesn't seem to be in their nature so I don't see that happening, but anything is possible. Although IE is basically the default browser for Windows they don't seem to be slowing the increase of installs for Firefox and Apple really seems to want to make some inroads with Safari.

IE should die.

Microsoft final releases are about as buggy as nightly or weekly builds anyway, so what's the difference?

what's the difference?

The five year gap between releases?

Burn.

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