LAS VEGAS -- The browser isn't everything when it comes to Microsoft Corp.'s platform strategy for next-generation Web applications, but it remains key, Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates made clear today at the Mix '06 trade show.
Gates acknowledged that Microsoft made a mistake in waiting to build new innovations into its Internet Explorer browser technology.
"In a sense, we're doing a 'mea culpa' in saying we've waited too long for a new browser release," Gates said during his talk to kick off Microsoft's first show for designers and developers of high-impact Web sites. "We are very immersed in the browser as a platform."
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