Here’s a thought: Spyware, malware, adware is going to do more than damage IE and OE, it’s going to hit ASPs and other web based businesses.
The next wave of Mozilla uptake is not going to be driven by some desire to give big MS some stick, it’s going to be the desire to flee from the pop ups, pop unders, the directory sniffing, the password grabbing – all because you stumbled upon the wrong website.
It’s not porn that gives you a rash these days, someone using my PC went and checked a recipe site for Kerala curry the other day. 3 days and 4 separate anti-spyware progams later and the system only has a pop up every 5 minutes now. So I dumped Internet Explorer and I dumped Outlook Express for the Mozilla and Thunderbird. (It still didn’t cure everything, but it was a start).
And now I feel safer and I don’t get too annoyed by the fact that I can’t use all those old services because they don’t have a site set up for Mozilla or a Thunderbird version (Who really needs Plaxo anyway, unless you’re moving job?). I’m safe now.
And that’s my point – will ASPs over reliance on IE and Outlook What this mean that they will get left behind by the crowd? Who’s going to trust the new IE7?
Just a though for the day.
Facebook
Twitter
Digg
Reddit
StumbleUpon
True, the Plaxo Toolbar for Outlook/OE only works with Outlook and Outlook Express.
But people can still utilize Plaxo exclusively over the web through Plaxo Online. The only functionality missing with the web-only approach is automatic synchronization to your local address book.
And we are hard at work at addressing the growing need for other client app support. For example, we quietly released a beta version of our IE Toolbar, which included Yahoo! Address book sync, and expect support for other popular client applications to be announced over the coming months.
February 16th, 2005 at 6:09 pm
Stacy – you know, looking back on it I was being flippant – I’m a big fan of Plaxo, and it has helped me out when I moved from job to job! – I think you probably had a head start with Yahoo becuase of your existing relationship with them, but good luck with Mozilla.
February 17th, 2005 at 9:22 am
“A panel of security experts on Wednesday debated the merits of regulating the software industry as a way to curtail software flaws–and hence reduce the volume of virus attacks. With software flaws serving as the open door to viruses and worms, a panel of industry experts at the RSA Conference here pondered whether it’s time to regulate software companies. The experts were mixed on the effectiveness of such a plan and whether it could be undertaken without crimping innovation.” Learn more about the fierce debate over the role of government regulation in the face of high-tech security threats, at News.com.
http://news.com.com/Time+to+regulate+the+software+industry/2100-7348_3-5579963.html?tag=nefd.top
February 17th, 2005 at 2:37 pm
While I write the online client, I should note that you can finally be free of it as Plaxo has announced a Thunderbird client.
http://www.plaxo.com/downloads/tbird
July 26th, 2005 at 1:33 pm