electronista.com — The release of Internet Explorer 8 hasn't had any significant impact on Firefox or any other competing browser, data collected by StatsCounter shows. While the final release of IE8 increased its market share slightly on launch day to 1.39 percent, Firefox 3.0 grew more quickly and reached 25.38 percent.
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silfirielMar 22, 2009
you can turn off IE on Windows 7<a class="user" href="http://netcashingin.blogspot.com/2009/03/and-this-is-how-you-do-it.html" rel="nofollow">http://netcashingin.blogspot.com/2009/03/and-this- ...</a>
rimantasMar 22, 2009
If you remember that you should also remember that IE4 was superior to NN4, and IE6_was_ the best browser at the time of its release. Things have changed however, and IE is lagging far behind.
antdudeMar 22, 2009
And IE6.0 SP1 is the highest for Windows 2000 SP4 that is still supported by MS until 2010.
Closed AccountMar 22, 2009
People still use Internet Explorer?By the way, since you've made 326 comments in the past week alone makes me know I have a bigger life than you.
danwallaceMar 24, 2009
Thank you!
maxparkMar 25, 2009
Sorry LANjackal but there are two tools there that I do not want and that I cannot remove/supress. I'm running Vista where Microsoft rate IE8 as an upgrade. Past experience has taught me to be very careful of ignoring/discarding any Widows upgrade so I want to have to have it in place. I have now found that IE8 breaks an essential tool that I use to access a content management system. It has had to go so I am even less happy. I've been here before with Windows and my concern is what hidden dependency may creep out in the future.
manishsinha27Mar 31, 2009
What's so special in IE8 over FF which made you switch back?
kmg90Apr 9, 2009
Well you can show him up by saying hey itcanRUN IE from Firefox using IE Tab
johnnysoftwareDec 2, 2009
Windows 7 was very much the same deal. Windows did not gain market share when Windows 7 came out. In fact, Windows continued to lose market share to Apple Macintosh Mac OS X, as it had all year long.I think IE is an albatross around Windows' neck. If Windows was freed of Windows, granted Windows would have to compete more legitimately and less with "vendor lock-in" anti-pattern. However, Windows would be able to achieve more.Microsoft would have more engineering talent and more management attention to focus on improving the power and safety of the Windows OS platform. Plus, they could go back to doing something they did in the 1980's and early 1990's: invent more GUI applications.In the 2000's, they have left it to Apple to create the innovative applications, speed up desktop searching, have a mature "grid" computing mechanism, and harness the reservoir of modern open source software in the same fashion that Unix started doing several decades ago.I really feel sorry for IE+Win7 now because the malware that is attacking it is worse than the malware pandemics the Windows magazines/vendors/pundits predicted would hit the Mac since 2004. And probably much to their shame, it still has not hit the Mac.It reminds me of imagery of solar flares you see bursting forth from a burning sun, only to arc back to the surface due to forces of gravity, magnetism, or whatever. All that reaches the Earth is heat, loud noise, and some bemusing light.Windows could do much, much, much better without dragging the sharp boat anchor of IE around with it. IE just gets hacked more with time. IE is losing market share and it still gets hacked more often and increasingly faster. Microsoft could start over, but it is looking like there would be no point and they would just repeat its original mistakes.