Microsoft: Internet Explorer is faster than Firefox

By Byron Acohido, USA Today, Technology Live, March 23, 2009

Microsoft never took its Internet Explorer web browser for granted -- even in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when IE commanded a 95% market share and its features didn't advance much. So says Mike Nash, corporate vice president of Windows product management.

Nash got a tad defensive when when I asked him if the newly released Internet Explorer 8 might help reverse the perception that Microsoft had gotten complacent about browsers -- until a Stanford sophomore, Blake Ross, introduced a jazzed-up alternative called Firefox in 2004.

"The thing I'll argue with you is the fact that we took IE for granted," Nash said in an interview. "I don't think we ever took it for granted. I think we probably should have invested in it more. And you'll see us do that going forward."

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