25 million downloads

[25 millions downloads]:http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=node/view/11681
[demand isn't there]:http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?msiepng
[IE7 will ship pre-longhorn]:http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/feb05/02-15RSA05KeynotePR.asp

WOW. On febuary 15th Firefox 1.0 hit [25 millions downloads][]. Congratulations to not just the development team, but to every person who has every told a friend or tested a nightly or submited a bug. Its all the little people that make open source software so wonderful. Everyone can help no matter how technically inclined. Gratz all and I can't wait to hit 50 million downloads.

On a related note Microsoft has announced that [IE7 will ship pre-longhorn][]. Gee, thats a suprise. But I will forever cling to other browsers. They can call me a zealot or fan boy all they want, but the fact is there would have to be a giant change in corporate attitude at MS for me to touch IE again and even then I would have to touch it with a 100ft pole first to test for contamination. Their lack of support for proper xhtml mime-types, standards compliant css, and png transparency (or hell even their borked box model) is appauling. Even if microsoft fixes those things in IE7 how long did it take them? How many people had to say something before they *finally* listened to their customers? It's been eight years since the png specification hit 1.0 **eight yeeeaars** and its not like the [demand isn't there][]