Mehmet Ali Ertürk

Microsoft IE Loses the Battle Against Firefox and Safari

Check out w3school browser stats and see how Microsoft IE is losing market share against Firefox and Safari.  So, why are they losing the browser war?  Remember the old saying “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

Now let’s quick look at the new IE 8, following sites are not supported by IE 8:

1. microsoft.com
2. google.com
3. yahoo.com
4. wikipedia.org
5. flickr.com
6. wordpress.com
7. adobe.com
8. facebook.com
9. apple.com
10. youtube.com

A quick look for the new Safari 4; Safari 4 Released, Claimed “30 Times Faster Than IE7″

First they ignored us now Open Source is winning the battles against Microsoft.

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Stupid Internal Microsoft Vista SP1 Video

I don’t believe this is real ….

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPv8PPl7ANU&hl=en]

Youtube

How YouTube handles rapid growth

Recipe for handling rapid growth

while (true)
{
identify_and_fix_bottlenecks();
drink();
sleep();
notice_new_bottleneck();
}

This loop runs many times a day.

If you wonder YouTube architecture you will find necessary information at highscalability.com.