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IE continues losing market share to open source browsers

arstechnica.com — For years now, the little blue "E" has been gracing the desktops of Windows users around the world (though many might say it's doing just the opposite!). Internet Explorer, notorious for its many security holes and being slow to patch them, continues to be one of the top choices for web browsing...

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  • spiderbaby138, on 01/13/2009, -1/+129It's not a top choice, it's a default choice.
  • iguanapunk, on 01/13/2009, -3/+110My girlfriend told me she installed Chrome the other day, without any information about it from me. She is the one.
  • Vinvin, on 01/13/2009, -3/+99BREAKING NEWS: Internet Explorer is *still* losing market share! Back to you Filip.
  • borez, on 01/13/2009, -9/+88What's IE?
  • cubicledrone, on 01/13/2009, -8/+81True for all standards-based web pages:

    1. Works in Firefox
    2. Works in Konqueror
    3. Works in Opera
    4. Works in Safari
    5. Works in Navigator

    ...

    70. Works in Lynx
    71. Works in Mozilla
    72. Works in Chrome
    73. IE ***** the bed

    Thank you.
  • hank22, on 01/13/2009, -3/+68http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuCDyp-0GG4
  • Ouze, on 01/13/2009, -1/+63Marry her fast, before a linux developer snaps her up.
  • inactive, on 01/13/2009, -3/+59internet exploder
  • Trekhawk, on 01/13/2009, -4/+53http://pictures.deadlycomputer.com/d/26490-3/firef ...
  • Wristo, on 01/13/2009, -0/+44Flock, Arachne, Epiphany, K-Meleon, Mosaic, Cello, Arena, IBM Web Explorer, Laser Web, SlipKnot, MacWeb, IBrowse, Argo, Minuet, OmniWeb, WebRouser, Grail, GX, PowerBrowser, Cyberdog, Amaya, Aweb, Voyager, iCab, Galeon, Phoenix, Links, Epiphany, Maxthon, Shiira, SeaMonkey, Camino, Avant, Sputnik, NetSurf, ViolaWWW, Chromium, Dillo, Elinks, GNU IceCat, Nexus, Sleipnir, x3m, GreenBrowser, SlimBrowser, Orca, xB, aeroFox, TheWorld, Acoo, Guerrilla, Lunascape, SiteKiosk, Visual Explorer, GeneNET, iSpirit, Kool-Fox, KidZui, Melwin, Lively, GeBin, Little Explorer, AOL Explorer
  • shaka776, on 01/13/2009, -0/+44She could be using it for the stealth mode browsing...
    just sayin'...
  • nathanbr, on 01/13/2009, -3/+47Its the software you use to download firefox
  • se7en11, on 01/13/2009, -1/+351337
  • skeen07, on 01/13/2009, -3/+36Microsoft is seriously slipping with Internet Explorer. There's a whole new generation of kids who don't even know what Internet Explorer is. I have a little brother who is 12, and he has never used IE. The first thing he looks for when he gets to a computer is Firefox. Everyone in my house uses Firefox.

    Microsoft are never going to recover from their lost market share, and it's only going to get worse for them. I have no idea what their plan is, surely they've just stopped caring?

    There's going to be a tipping point where we'll see huge exponential growth in the usage of Firefox, and other browsers.
  • StephenCIreland, on 01/13/2009, -1/+34im pretty sure if digg, slashdot, 4chan, facebook , twittr and google blocked IE the figures would go down a lot faster
  • feyded, on 01/13/2009, -1/+33Brand recognition (like it or not, many computer novices equate IE = Internet). Plus the fact that IE comes preinstalled with Windows on their shiny new Dell laptop.
  • doshindude, on 01/13/2009, -6/+38you can't spell die without IE.
  • trafficlight, on 01/13/2009, -1/+32No, actually, it shouldn't.
  • se7en11, on 01/13/2009, -2/+31dye
  • vspazv, on 01/13/2009, -0/+28No worries. That's what the keylogger is for.
  • Godlike, on 01/13/2009, -2/+29I ask people what their favorite page is and then I load it up in FF in front of them. Almost always right away it's "where did the ads go?".
  • JenniferInMO, on 01/13/2009, -3/+29I thought I was the last one to give up using IE (hey, I'm old). If anyone is viewing this thread on IE, change to Firefox already. More secure, better layout way cool plug ins and easy for old folks like me to use.
  • Methyst, on 01/13/2009, -2/+27The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog...
  • Claverhouse, on 01/13/2009, -0/+20Only 68 more times...
  • Godlike, on 01/13/2009, -2/+21What's her number?
  • scy1192, on 01/13/2009, -1/+18There's an ad on the YouTube front page for it, she probably just saw that.
  • jonesyno, on 01/13/2009, -2/+19Latin. . . "id est", ie "that is"
  • winry, on 01/13/2009, -2/+19that's scary as hell
  • WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -0/+14Basic FF gives you the same functionality as basic IE, so I don't see the problem with it. And the addons are incredibly easy to use - you don't even need to install them, just download and restart your browser (which you know, obviously). No tech-savvy needed. If you're sufficiently knowledgeable to shop around for browsers, you're sufficiently knowledgeable to read through the addon descriptions, imo.
  • GoreLeech, on 01/13/2009, -3/+17Habit. There was an article recently about Office users starting to move away from Office, because they realized there were alternatives. Most companies and such use it because users are comfortable with it. They simply don't realize there are alternatives to the pre-installed software, or software the company provides.

    I hope to god that along with IE, Office dies a bad death. Having to support people at our school that steadfastly use that bloatware called Office is a pain in my rear.
  • talonstriker, on 01/13/2009, -2/+15You have an ie in your definition of IE. That's infinite recursion.
  • FIip, on 01/13/2009, -1/+13You spelled my name wrong!!!
  • arcticsoft, on 01/13/2009, -3/+14its not a third party app installed on your grandmas new computer. the average internet user wants to buy socks on amazon, not install more software. most don't see firebug as a useful tool, so why bother? that is why it is not jumping up the chart.
  • talonh, on 01/13/2009, -2/+13Auto-install malware?
  • NinjaBull, on 01/13/2009, -0/+11lol comparing Digg and Twitter to Facebook and Google.
  • SmpleJohn, on 01/13/2009, -2/+12My companies intranet doesn't work in FF (was designed before I got here). In 2009 we have the go ahead to use resources to updating it so we can use FF or IE7. We're also switching to Open Office.

    All that to say, it's getting there. Average user's eyes just have to be open to the better browsers.
  • chaoswings, on 01/13/2009, -0/+10IE is NOT standards compliant. It is better then IE6, but that is not saying very much.

    All the good browsers score 70 or higher (opera scores a perfect 100 I believe) on the acid3 tests. Acid3 tests gauge standards compliance. You have no idea how much of a pain it is for web developers.

    Do you know what the score for IE8 is? 17.

    More information on what Acid3 is here...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid3
  • inactive, on 01/13/2009, -1/+11Does she have a sister?
  • LostSoul83, on 01/13/2009, -0/+10Excuse me while I get up and do a dance. It's nice to see IE lose market share, because situations like the following are UNACCEPTABLE:

    A wile ago I signed up for DSL service. After I set up the modem and while I was trying to configure my account, it insisted that I use IE to do so. Instead of figuring a way around this, I took the coward's way out and just rebooted to Windows and configured it there. :) Please consider people who don't have a Windows install though. Artificial requirements like this should NOT be imposed on them.
  • wigren, on 01/13/2009, -0/+10That reminds me of an ex-girlfriend and the time I got diarrhea.... Oh, wait that was to insecure to ***** and ***** fast. NM.
  • ron7852, on 01/13/2009, -1/+11Dugg for the thumbnail alone.
  • svivian, on 01/13/2009, -0/+9Yeah by the number of identical stories on digg over the past few months one expects IE's share to be about 10% now.
  • inactive, on 01/13/2009, -1/+10Maybe MS should make a functional browser for a change.
  • inactive, on 01/13/2009, -7/+16Why don't abbathdoom get some proper englishing
  • bobjohnsonmilw, on 01/13/2009, -4/+13Rightfully so. DIE you scum. DIE!
    Web developers around the world are becoming more and more happy in direct relation to the numbers declining for that piece of ***** browser.
  • GhostFreeman, on 01/13/2009, -3/+12Companies still use IE because it has group policy settings. Firefox dosen't, because this is all pretty much IE stuff. I still know people who use IE6!
  • holzp, on 01/13/2009, -0/+9Exactly, it sucks so much that it is losing ground even with the Microsoft monopoly behind it. What would its usage be if it were not the default and only way to surf the web for generally non-tech crowd?
  • NinjaBull, on 01/13/2009, -0/+9<3
  • keviniskool, on 01/14/2009, -0/+9You win.
  • JoelJ, on 01/13/2009, -8/+16seriously, are we going to have one of these articles every time IE looses 1% of their market share?
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