Focus On: Browsers

The world swooned at the Consumer Electronics Show unveiling of Google Pack, an easily installed almost-all-in-one Internet experience. Too bad it suffers from the same maladies as the rest of the One Size Fits All packages: Several components are famously unpleasant... There's no Office... No bitTorrent... And no package for Linux, BSD, Unix or OS X. What a lost opportunity.

What do you get when you combine reckless security with a tottering Internet Explorer feature set? An army of very unhappy opinion leaders: Geeks and network managers. Email Battles lets you see the pro-IE and anti-IE arguments, and tells you which side has the better hand.

When it comes to the neglect of Internet Explorer, nobody's as mad as Microsoft's own employees. As Redmond retreats from some markets and is booted out of others, Microsoft folk are jumping ship, whining, screaming at the top of their lungs, or all of the above. The winners? Firefox, Netscape, Opera, Konqueror, Safari, and anything else Not-Based-On-Internet Explorer.