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jaded · 02-10-2005, 10:21 PM

I thought about this before, but never got an answer. Today the question just popped up again while I was trying things in different browsers. Users might care, for different browsers provide different features/benefits, etc, (of course, some people just don\'t like MS products), but why would companies care which browsers people are using, which are most popular? After all, they are all giving them away for free, so why would they care? Because some day they might start charging for them so it is a potential revenue source? Or are they bringing other revenues that are not obvious to me? Starting homepages shouldn\'t matter much for they can be easily reset. I am out of ideas. Welcome any enlightenment.

02-10-2005, 10:21 PM	#1 (permalink)
jaded Crazy	IE, Netscape, firefox, opera - why do they care? I thought about this before, but never got an answer. Today the question just popped up again while I was trying things in different browsers. Users might care, for different browsers provide different features/benefits, etc, (of course, some people just don\'t like MS products), but why would companies care which browsers people are using, which are most popular? After all, they are all giving them away for free, so why would they care? Because some day they might start charging for them so it is a potential revenue source? Or are they bringing other revenues that are not obvious to me? Starting homepages shouldn\'t matter much for they can be easily reset. I am out of ideas. Welcome any enlightenment.