“We messed up”. That’s what Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft Internet Explorer general manager said yesterday at the Mix06 conference in Vegas, while talking about the delay they took in releasing the new version of IE. Indeed, the latest version of IE was released in 2001, and nothing new has been released since, until IE 7.

According to this article from The Seattle Times, Microsoft promised to “refresh its browser technology more often in the future”. If you look at his main competitor, Mozilla, it’s true that they update their browser very often and are fixing all the bugs on a constant basis.

Bill Gates knows that they cannot lag anymore, and have to provide browsers capable of handling new kinds of pages without any problem…
“You can expect to see us moving very very rapidly there because we see great opportunities there” he said.