Perspectives: January 3
I’ve decided to start a new series on this blog, which I’m calling Perspectives. I realize that I end a lot of posts with “we’ll see where this goes”, but we never get to see, since I’m not going to repeat the same stuff every day until a conclusion is reached. Blogs tend to be so obsessed with the “now”, that we never pay attention to what’s happened in the past, and we forget things that might be important. So, every day, unless I’m way too busy (or not around), I’ll post about whatever I was discussing a year ago, and, as time goes by, two years ago, and so on.
On January 3, 2005, there wasn’t much news, except that the Open Source blog was starting, and it was never posted on again (anyone want to give it a shot?). There was talk of Firefox, and how it was gaining on Microsoft. Firefox spent the last year gaining lots of market share, although it still has a long way to go to catch IE. The big test will be this year if IE7 can reverse or at least stall the trend, or if Microsoft has a real war on its hands.
This has been “Perspectives”, I’m Lionel Osbourne.
