Slashdot ran an article today about Microsoft saying Firefox is not a threat to IE. While the article in itself is interesting (CNET article), I thought nothing was quite as true as the comment made by maaadlucas:
Most people don’t actually care. The vast majority of people simply don’t know what a program is, what an operating system is, what a CPU is or whatever. To them, you click this little button to print, that little button to shutdown, and you click on “Internet Explorer” to “Explore the internet”. That’s why its such a great name for a web browser, and also the reason why Apple introduced a little “Browse the Internet” icon in MacOS 8 which launched your default browser. The real reason why Firefox is not a threat is because People Are Dumb.
Hear, hear! This is so true.