encyclo - 2:48 pm on Jul 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

As soon as one of those "other browsers" start to gain public momentum, the security holes will surface.

Absolutely right - but they forcibly will be more limited and the fixes will come quicker. Microsoft has to test IE patches intensively on over 400 test installations, and even then they can't be sure things aren't going to break outside of IE because there is no separation of roles or code between the browser and the OS.