Internet Explorer is dying

It just has to KILL Steve Ballmer (and -- when he was running M$ -- Bill Gates) that they have NEVER RECOUPED A DIME of ANY of the money invested in Internet Explorer; AND THEY NEVER WILL, either! I still remember with glee the shock expressed by M$'s spokesman when Netscape released to the public domain the code for its browser. Even then, Gates & Company knew that not only would they never EARN any money on Internet Explorer, but that they would have to continue to invest in Internet Explorer so as not to become the laughing stock of the internet. Oh, the irony! :-)

Outside the U.S., I would wager the majority of people neither know nor indeed care who the Vice President is. The world has its mind on more important things these days.

On the subject of IE, the mere fact you can visit a malware infested web site (thepiratebay.org springs to mind) and cop something nasty by dutifully clicking all the "No" and "Cancel" buttons shows just why this shit magnet needs to die now, today. Get it over and done with because it's going to happen sooner or later.

Since IE(aka Infection Encourager)is carefully designed by Microsoft to be a direct line into the vulnerable innards of delicate Windows systems, and

Since the volume of viruses and malware on the Internet are not likely to have decreased, but if anything seem to have increased in the last 3 years.

Therefore, if 20% less people are using IE, then this large virus load must increase by at least 20% on the remaining 60% of unlucky souls who still use IE (like turning up a vacuum cleaner on high -- suck in them viruses my little Windows-buster!).

As Clint Eastwood might say: "Do you feel lucky, punk? Sure, then go ahead and surf around on the Internet using IE". But as we know, Clint very much liked how "Firefox" handled...

Firefox even does it *better* than opera... (what use is speed, when it does not work proper????)

Speed dial - lots of options...(groups, naming, shortcuts, backup..) :)

Opera's URLbar is just for google searches or history - no 'intelligence' like FF has..

Sessions?? many addons give full management, etc.. :)

many more...

Good I hope Internet Exploder totally disappears ....Then microsoft can trim all the bloatware out of the OS that ties itself to the Browser and vise -versa !

It will be great to finally have PURE OPEN STANDARDS for internet browsers rather than Microsucks trying to control both my OS and my Browser with greed developed closed standards like they do now !

Russ is like the people who can't name the U.S. Vice President. You know, the fools. IE is perfect for them.

two reasons to use firefox over Internet Exploder 6, Infection Exploiter 7, Instability Extender 8...

1. AdBlock Plus - view the internet the way it was meant to be, without all the BS adds

2. No Script - True Internet Security, in its purest form.

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For Browser, SEA Monkey Is #1. No Others come before SEA Monkey in Reliability. Others are fancier, & Beutiful, Like Pogo from at&t, First install SEA Monkey 2.0X, when IE Breaks Down, You'll SEA.

This would be the same Internet Explorer whose latest version 8 is now used by more people than all versions of Firefox put together?

Just checking.

(Same source as your article, NetMarketshare: IE 8 24.66%, Firefox [all] 24.59%.)

Not sure where the tipping point will be but at some point developers will just start writing to web standards. I hate all the IE hacks, and trying to implement modern features in an antique browser.

Thank god microsoft internet "Exploder" is finally dying. I hope it rests in peace. MS deserves the flak it received for behaving like a gorilla and trying to destroying competition. What a farce. However there are still British cocksuckers who are trying to suckle up to MS. I'm talking about the guys at NSS labs who cannot remove their lips from Steve Ballmer's pink arse and claim that IE8 is the most secure browser in the whole wide world!!!

A browser that *still* has over 60 percent marketshare, despite the incredible neglect of its primary developer? I think that shows more that other browsers have few compelling features that would prompt people to switch.

I only made the final switch to Firefox because a mouse would trigger two back-clicks from the back button on the mouse, but for some reason not do it on Firefox. This was only made possible because I could find some extensions that could emulate some of IE's behavior. Still, with this recent memory leak bug in Firefox that makes it consume over a GB of memory after a day of being on, I might just have to switch back or check out Chrome.

Please write down this information or print this page for your records.

IE is on a slow decline? Big surprise.

Maybe Chrome is picking up share because Google is the dominate search engine and throws a "Upgrade to Chrome" message every time someone hits google.com with anything but their browser.

If it helps promote web standards, then I'm all for browser diversity.

Besides the slump of IE share, the other relevant fact is the progress chrome is making.

I'm a chrome user.

I was using firefox before and I was somewhat tired of seing it allocate more and more resources, only to never release them.

With a lot of open tabs, there was often a page which eating all cpu cycles it could, making the whole browser become unusable (despite being dual core) and I had to close it.

Chrome use processes for each tab, so when a page is eating all CPU, you just close the tab.. Also there is a tablist when you can see how much CPU and memory is used by each tab. And it manages a lot better the plugin crashes, IE: flash can crash without taking the browser down, you reload you page and "taadaa"..

Not only chrome have these welcomed change resulting from some pretty remarquable architectural advances, but it's blazing fast too. (and multi-core friendly)

Sorry for the informecial tone, but if you every only used IE you should give chrome a try.

Now if Google could better contribute to Linux..

Support for standards.
Microsoft is known for its policy regardings standards as as in "Embrace, extend and extinguish".

Internet Explorer was a clear illustration of that, not implementing core parts of standards while adding proprietary extensions.

Fortunately, because of their non-commitment to IE, some other products emerged because they brought long-waited enhancements.

With IE, despite their reluctance, MS have no choice but to innovate, to comply to standards a little bit more .

That somebody wishes that IE would be the only browser is beyond me.

If there was no competition in the browser space, would Microsoft have invested so much to make Internet Explorer as enjoyable as it is ?

Yeah, like, why do we need more than one car brand?

My car is just fine, I put fuel on it and it goes forward, what else would I ask for?

Prepare for another Microsoft knee jerk reaction! A la Windows Phone 7.... A new browser that is all people friendly and touchy feely. Instead of doing what it should do and make it FAST, easily CUSTOMIZABLE, light weight, fully compliant and open. Am I asking for too much ???

Ive used to be a big fan of Netscape back in the day.. but have used IE for years. It's (IE8) working perfectly fine.

Ive got Mozilla/FF installed, but I don't see the big deal really.

I think that could be unrepresentative of the man in the street.

For instance, a web page about making a
n informed choice of browser will not be visited by people who are not interested in making an informed choice of browser, and that may be a majority of browser users, who therefore are probably using Internet Explorer. So IE would be under-counted.

Try as I might, there's no joy in that figure except that it's slightly lower than before, IF accurate.

If the ordinary M$ user only knew that IE is the primary invitation to all forms of malware, then... they'd STILL keep using it!

Russ, you are a goose. You say you couldn't name another web browser but the article itself names five others.

Here's a hint, one is called Firefox.

The pick your browser option is the simple reason for this. If you already have IE8 you still have to pick a browser and so what you pick most people choose default as it is the default option and have no idea how to switch back.

I have never had an issue with IE but I have with firefox and safari and google as corporates like sage dont want to support all for there upload.

Simple. Why support many when 1 is fine.

People who say they have an issue with IE only browse and usually its because they have a crap dead PC.

Perfectly happy with IE. Don't see what the problem is. I know there are a few minor programs out there, but I don't think it is really worth the effort to look around. You are just surfing the net, you know. What else can a browser really do except show you the pages you want to read? What's the big deal. I honestly couldn't name you one other browser that even exists.

Some time in the future, I guess all those IE6-dependent business applications will eventually fall by the wayside. Not sure it will happen within the next seven years, though.

But maybe about the same time HTML5 replaces Flash et al.