[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia jumps _into_ the top 10.

[Gurch]

Mathias Schindler wrote:
> On 1/5/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:10:00 +0000, Neil Harris
>> <usenet at tonal.clara.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Only 8 more to go.
>> Unlikely, unless we start offering free email or setting every copy of
>> Windows to use Wikipedia as its default home page.
> 
> We are getting close. Microsoft is using its autoupdate tool to push
> the MSIE 7.0 to its dron^wcustomers. People will have the "option" to
> "chose" for different search providers for the upper right search form
> (maybe you have seen this in FF already). One of the offered search
> tools is Wikipedia.
> 
> This should - however - not stop us from creating an offline tool that
> could be installed instead of Encarta for OEMs...
> 
> Mathias

Just persuade some popular OEMs to ship new PCs with a shortcut to 
Wikipedia on the desktop; that'd be enough.

-Gurch