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This is my assessment task in my computer subject. the Pdf contains a layout of the LAN in my assumed ICT room, a recommendation of the top 3 browser to be used and an abstract of a research about social networks.
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environment imaginable." While at the same time, the ubiquity of the
browser is exactly what makes a web application so powerful. A good
web application is designed to run everywhere and for everyone. Today
that means supporting more browsers on more devices than any time in
history. This session will explore the challenges (and fun) of
building sites in a multi-platform and multi-device world while still enabling features of the Open Web like HTML5 and CSS3.
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The document discusses the "Browser Wars" between Microsoft and Netscape in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It analyzes why Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser became the dominant standard, monopolizing the market. While unlikely to change in the short term, the monopoly may not continue indefinitely. New competitors like Google Chrome and an increasingly tech-savvy user base supporting browsers like Mozilla Firefox could undermine Internet Explorer's dominance over the next decade. However, Microsoft remains entrenched as the dominant player in both the operating system and web browser markets for now.
Internet Explorer is Microsoft's web browser that was first released in 1995 and is included with Windows operating systems. It had over 90% market share but has lost share to other browsers like Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. Firefox was created by Mozilla as an experimental browser and had several major version releases between 2004-2011. Google Chrome was first released in 2008 and uses the WebKit layout engine. It has gained over 10% market share. Opera is a full-featured browser available free that was first released in 1996 and runs on multiple operating systems.
This is my assessment task in my computer subject. the Pdf contains a layout of the LAN in my assumed ICT room, a recommendation of the top 3 browser to be used and an abstract of a research about social networks.
Windows 1.0 was the first version of the Windows operating system released by Microsoft in 1985. It provided a graphical user interface and mouse support, allowing users to run multiple applications at the same time. However, Windows 1.0 had limited functionality and could only display windows in a tiled format rather than overlapping. It required other software like MS-DOS to function and saw limited adoption. Windows 1.0 was later superseded by improved versions like Windows 2.0 and newer releases from Microsoft.
Browsers are software programs that allow users to view and interact with web pages on the Internet. The main functions of browsers include displaying text, graphics, and hyperlinks to move between pages. Popular browsers mentioned in the document include Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, and others. Each browser has features like tabbed browsing, integrated search, and varying levels of customization, speed, and security. Browsers communicate with servers using protocols like HTTP to retrieve and display web page content.
The browser has been called the "most hostile software development
environment imaginable." While at the same time, the ubiquity of the
browser is exactly what makes a web application so powerful. A good
web application is designed to run everywhere and for everyone. Today
that means supporting more browsers on more devices than any time in
history. This session will explore the challenges (and fun) of
building sites in a multi-platform and multi-device world while still enabling features of the Open Web like HTML5 and CSS3.
Introduction to Computer Operating Systems class presentation at Tallahassee Community College Fall Semester 2009 on the evolution of the Windows Operating System from the beginning to present day
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1. The project aims to develop an Android application and web application for nutritionists and dietitians to digitalize and streamline their regular workflow processes.
2. The application is designed for both registered dietitians/nutritionists as well as dietetics students.
3. The main motivation is the lack of mobile technology usage in the field of dietetics and nutrition. Currently, dietitians manually calculate patient needs using reference books, which is inefficient. The application aims to automate these calculations.
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- As devices like phones, tablets, and smart TVs became more common, accessibility of content across different platforms became important.
- Web standards like HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript now provide many of the interactive capabilities Flash once did, in an open and consistent way across all browsers and devices.
- While Flash had its place early on, today's web favors open standards that don't require plugins and can reach all internet-connected devices. The benefits of accessibility now outweigh Flash's capabilities for most sites.
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- It will include 5 main sites inspired by classic movie settings - a lake, castle, village, forest, and stadium - each hosting major attractions. Other minor sites will include shops and restaurants.
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1. Browser Wars : Battles of Standards
Former EMBS students
Innovation and Knowledge Management
European Master in Business Studies
25/04/2009
2. Browser Wars
Battles of Standards, Microsoft versus
Netscape
Topic :
One standard that appears to have been effectively monopolized by a
single company is the Microsoft PC system software. The class could discuss
why this is the case and wether it is likely to continue in the future. It
could also ask wether such a monopoly is a good thing (for society as a
whole, not just Microsoft) for what it considers, as unfair competition against
Netscape. An excellent analysis of the various sides of the debate can be
found in The Economist ('At war with Microsoft' and 'Play nicely, or not at all',
May 23, 1998; 'Bill Gates replies: compete, don't delete', June 13, 1998;
Microsoft - letters, p.10, June 27, 1998).
Context :
The following case study has been submitted for the course of Innovation and
Knowledge Management at the university of Léon within the European Master
in Business Studies.
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3. Index
Pages
Topic : ................................................................................................................ 2
Context : ............................................................................................................ 2
Introduction : ...................................................................................................... 4
Personal experience about the study case :...................................................... 4
Why the web browser standard has been monopolized by Microsoft PC
system software ? .............................................................................................. 5
Is it likely to continue in the future ? .................................................................. 7
Raising up of a new competitor: Google......................................................... 7
A computer population who is more and more educated ............................... 8
A new sanction for Microsoft ? ....................................................................... 9
Is such a monopoly a good thing ? .................................................................... 9
Advantages : ................................................................................................... 9
Disadvantages : ............................................................................................ 10
Conclusion : ..................................................................................................... 12
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4. Introduction :
Internet Explorer versus Netscape Navigator is maybe the oldest and more
classical case study we can can find on a technology monopole. This is then
not the information which are lacking on the subject and it can be very easy for
us to make a good copy of those works based on the analysis of analysis.
However we are personnaly more interested in writing something new and
original.
Because we both grew up with Internet in a post first browser war period we
suggest then to make a different analysis than the one we can find on Internet.
Such goal can be reached by taking into account new elements such as
analyzing the current web browser market(2009) and trying to predict the
future of the web browser market.
Those changes will brought an original work and an exclusive paper to its
readers.
We hope you will appreciate it.
Personal experience about the study case :
We are today in 2009 and the first browser war between Netscape against IE
is nowadays over. When Netscape was on the market ten years ago both of us
were not day to day Internet users. We heard about Netscape but never
experienced it concretely, so it is hard for us to say if Netscape was a better
product.
We personnaly grew up and have been trained on Internet Explorer ( as it was
by default installed on all computers of our junior High Schools).
However we are novice on the topic because we are currently living during a
second browser war period as both users and experienced of Mozilla Firefox
and Google Chrome.
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5. A nowadays caricature of browser war: IE, Firefox, Chrome
Why the web browser standard has been monopolized by Microsoft PC
system software ?
First of all let’s define what is a standard :
« A technology is recognized as a standard when it gets more than 50% of
the market shares»
Let’s now define a web browser :
« A browser is a software application that is used to locate and display Web
pages. »
www.asu.edu/copp/resources/glossary.html
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6. Here is a definition of Microsoft :
« Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational computer technology
corporation, which rose to dominate the home computer operating
system »
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft
And to finish a definition of an operating system :
« The most important program run on a computer because it manages all
the other programs. »
www.iscfr21.it/21cfr_glossary.html
So Microsoft owns the Operating System market which is managing web
browsers and Microsoft is producing its own web browser : Internet Explorer.
Here we can then understand the problematic.
On Microsoft side we can understand the following question « Why should I
include a competitor web browser within my own Operating System ? » and
obviously understand why they are still not doing it.
In 1999 in order to install Netscape on your PC you needed to take it from
the outside (Download on Internet, take it from a CD etc…) and here is the
heart of the winning battle.
In order to win and be recognized as a better product people have to know that
you exist. We can then understand why at that time computer users did not
have Netscape on their computer (today the world Internet penetration rate is
at 23,8% in 2000 only 7% of the world population had Internet connection,
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm). Netscape was then for elites or
computer educated people.
So to sum up this first part :
- The web browser market has been monopolized by Microsoft because
MS owns the software which manage web browsers ;
- Microsoft has no interest of letting entering competitors into his own
market ;
- Users cannot know that other web browsers exist if they are not
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7. informed about their existence and of course cannot install them if they
do not know how to ;
Is it likely to continue in the future ?
Actually a good question one should ask is « Has the situation of web
browsers changed during the last ten years ? »
As standard users we can say no but the next decade is going to be very
interesting for the web browsers market and this for many reasons.
Raising up of a new competitor: Google
The first good reason for changes is the raising up of Google
on the market of operating systems. Google already started
on cell phones with a software called « Android ». Google is
the most famous brand in the world and has a better
reputation than Microsoft which is a good reason for
customers to switch or at least give a try to a new operating
system. Moreover Google already owns its proper web browser : Google
Chrome.
It is not that popular but has however the fourth position in the market of web
browser, taking into account that the third one is more or less targeting another
kind of computers (Mac) one can say that Google Chrome has an interesting
outsider position (cf.page 11).
We would amphisize as well that Google may have the solution for the
operating system of tomorrow which could bring a tremendous revolution in
the world of operating system.
It is going to be the first time that Microsoft will face a competitor which is as
famous and successful as him.
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8. A computer population who is more and more educated
The case of Mozilla Firefox web browser is also a very interesting part of this
case study . Mozilla Firefox is a free, open-source, web browser for Windows,
Linux and Mac OS X. Firefox is knowing exactly the same story as Netscape
(in fact the those two products are more or less the same
http://browser.netscape.com/history). « At the time of the acquisition, the
Netscape team had begun working on converting their flagship product - the
Netscape Communicator web suite - into open source software, under a new
name: Mozilla. »
Netscape exactly as Mozilla Firefox got once the reputation of being the best
web browser http://www.consumersearch.com/web-browser-reviews . They
are so called better than Internet Explorer but not yet recognized as the
standard.
The success of Mozilla is due to the fact that it is a product which is according
to us more convenient than Internet Explorer. It is not first in the market
because in order to have it on your computer you need to download it and of
course to know its existence.
The best example we can find about the recognition of its strengths is its
presence within universities..
It is nowadays very hard to find in European universities a computer which
does not have Mozilla Firefox on the desktop.
We guess that the presence of Mozilla is due to the fact that higher education
recognize its quality.
Let's know think about the future when the current students which are studying
right now at the university will be on the market place.
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9. Well good chances that it will install a wave of Mozilla Firefox within
businesses and that it will be a trend which will not be reversed until
universities recognize the value of another web browser.
So we would attribute the success of Mozilla Firefox and in a certain way
Netscape to the fact that people get more and more computer educated.
However this education is not sufficient enough in order to jeopardize
Microsoft Internet Explorer on the short term.
A new sanction for Microsoft ?
Microsoft has been at the center of many polemics since the story of Netscape
versus Microsoft, however justice never sanctionned firmely Microsoft for
obvious reasons (if Microsoft is seriously condamned what will happen to
Microsoft users ?).
Microsoft trial is still a day to day topic in the
news : http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/informatique/0,39040745,39393157,00.ht
m. Microsoft is under a condamnation by the european commission
http://rcpmag.com/news/article.aspx?editorialsid=10780 to let an option on its operating
system allowing to remove Internet Explorer and include competitors web
browsers.
The answer of the verdict is still in process:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/28/microsoft-european-union-markets-equity-browsers-
opera.html
Is such a monopoly a good thing ?
As in all monopoly you have pros and cons :
Advantages :
If everybody use the same web browser then it is less work for website
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10. computer programmers because you are sure that all the information you will
display will be displayed properly. Exactly like a language if everybody speaks
the same language then everybody understand and understand each other.
Disadvantages:
On the other hand when people are using different web browsers some
information are sometimes missing, computer programmers have to test the
applications on different web browsers and then tasks come to be more and
more complicated.
Here are some mere explanations. Some web browsers recognized some
parts of codes whereas other don't. One of the most famous one is the HTML
tag called <blink></blink> which means that a word included between those
two tags will blink automatically. Some web browsers are not reading those
codes and of course will not display this information properly whereas other
will.
So here was for the main basic idea.
Another idea we can developped is the different use of web browser for
different tasks.
For example Mozilla Firefox is very popular because of all the functions you
can add to this browser : applications which will allow you to download videos
from the website you are looking at or even thousands of others functionalities
to customize your web browser.
Google Chrome is is very convenient because it is quickly launched.
Lynx(textual web browser) is very popular to protect your data and your
confidentiality.
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11. So to each web browser correspond a certain list of characteristics but of
course you have to know that they exist and what are their characteristics.
According to the book "Winners, losers and Microsoft" the products which win
the battle are always the best. We strongly disagree with this statement. The
product which win is the best advertised and at this game Microsoft is winning.
A quick look at the recent figures of the web browsers market shares show us
that Internet Explorer is still the leader and the standard in terms of web
browser.
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12. Conclusion :
From this analysis we can then understand why Netscape did not win (if your
success is in the end of your competitor…well it is hard to win) but also why it
is still living under the name of Firefox (when you have strenghts that
competitors do not have you are still on the race).
We can also see that people are not entirely benefiting from this monopoly
because Internet Explorer is not the best product.
For consumers they can take the best part of web browsers only by using each
of them for specific purposes but should at least know that they exist.
Microsoft could lose its monopolistic position on the short term but only if a
strong event happened such as the presence of Google on the desktop
operating system market or a severe condamnation from the European
Commission.
What is really strange to see is that the Web Browser market clearly show how
computer education is moving and market imperfection, how is it still possible
that Microsoft is taking the monopole of web browser since such a long time ?
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