Bing is in the House!
Bing has launched and many see some movement on the browser arena with respect to curiosity of the new web browser from the software giant that is Microsoft. is it going to make the cut as “the browser to compete with”, it may be too early to tell but it surely is raising eyebrows as the company has or will be spending an estimated $100 million on ads and other drives to raise awareness of their new product. Microsoft has been increasing it’s visibility in the open-source market due to the appeal and maybe even the bite the many other open-sourced projects have taken out of their market share.
Google, Chrome and Firefox hold a majority of the web browsers in use and they are all based on open-sourced technology that is driven partly by the many communities that plays part in the development and improvement of the overall final software product. The development may lie in a few core individuals but the community has the right and ability to influence the development and error checking that may be needed allowing transparency in terms of security flaws. This is one thing that differs greatly from previously prominent software, the amount of information with respect to the security and other issues about a product, normally hidden from view of the public who uses the final product.