Update : This was all done for fun.

Believe it or not that’s going to happen. According to this source ( Microsoft Abandons Internet Explorer 8 Development for Firefox 3)  Steve Ballmer announced  that Microsoft would be halting development on Internet Explorer 8 and focusing the company’s efforts on Firefox 3.

This is pretty surprising but hi five for FF users and on top of that he had said  ” Firefox 3.0 will be the standard browser included with Windows 7 installations along and will replace Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista SP2″.

This came definitely as a surprise to Mozilla but they must have welcomed it. Firefox being the most popular browser has an edge now on all the browsers.

• However I am just wondering how some of the applications which typically works with IE7 and Silverlight would workout.
• If Windows User gets Firefox 3 installed as default it will definitely affect the referral program of Google where it asks people to use FF . Remember this programs are specifically targeted for IE users by the site owners to increase their ad units performance.
• Is Microsoft finally moving towards Interoperability ? In one of the post on IE blog they said “Microsoft recently published a set of Interoperability Principles. Thinking about IE8’s behavior with these principles in mind, interpreting web content in the most standards compliant way possible is a better thing to do.”

We will have to wait to see how Microsoft changes the its business strategy for competing in the Internet world. Already Yahoo Mania has changed a lot of things and we will be seeing more of it soon.

Update: We are working to get more news so this aritcle can get more support. Till then things seems to be dicy. Thanks for your patitence.