Microsoft stands to benefit from Mozilla's anti-enterprise approach

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The enterprise world is up in arms over Mozilla's new Firefox development cycle -- and some harsh words from Mozilla -- and Microsoft is using this as an opportunity to talk up the benefits of switching to Internet Explorer.
Mozilla released version 5 of its Firefox browser this week, three months after it shipped Firefox 4 and it plans to continue this pace. The company is planning updates every six weeks and -- more importantly -- dropping support for older versions when the new ones come out.
This works great for consumers, who can easily and happily upgrade their browser to the newest version but, as ZDNet's Ed Bott points out, it doesn't work out so well for the enterprise sector. Corporate clients need and want stability because of the time and costs involved with deploying a major browser update