Internet Explorer Wins the Battle

Dom · Sep 2, 2004, 08:27 PM

There's a remarkable graph on Google's Zeitgeist site showing the meteoric rise of Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 use and equally catastrophic decline of all other competing browsers. In essence, Microsoft IE has become the de facto front door to the Internet.

We all know about and even use competing browsers like Opera, Firefox, and the newly released Netscape 7.5, but so what? They have, at best, the merest fraction of the online market. In fact, they've probably just carved up the slice of users who want to use alternative browsers. Compared with the overall size of the browser market, that isn't very big.

Internet Explorer is a slow, often inscrutable piece of software, which, like most of Microsoft's other creations, is burdened by years of coding on top of old, legacy code. I run IE and watch on a daily basis as the browser eats up most of my system resources.

To be fair, I'm a power user. I normally have three, four, even five browsers open at once. IE is not made for me. It's built for the user who will stay in one window all the time and carefully shut down one browser before opening another.

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Source: PCmag

RIV@NVX · Sep 2, 2004, 08:51 PM

He didn't say anything new in that article. Facts he mentions are already well known. IE comes with OS. IE is easy to use, doesn't need to be installed. Why would Joe Average switch then?

Sep 2, 2004, 08:27 PM	#1
Dom DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 12,940 Rep Power: 0	Internet Explorer Wins the Battle There's a remarkable graph on Google's Zeitgeist site showing the meteoric rise of Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 use and equally catastrophic decline of all other competing browsers. In essence, Microsoft IE has become the de facto front door to the Internet. We all know about and even use competing browsers like Opera, Firefox, and the newly released Netscape 7.5, but so what? They have, at best, the merest fraction of the online market. In fact, they've probably just carved up the slice of users who want to use alternative browsers. Compared with the overall size of the browser market, that isn't very big. Internet Explorer is a slow, often inscrutable piece of software, which, like most of Microsoft's other creations, is burdened by years of coding on top of old, legacy code. I run IE and watch on a daily basis as the browser eats up most of my system resources. To be fair, I'm a power user. I normally have three, four, even five browsers open at once. IE is not made for me. It's built for the user who will stay in one window all the time and carefully shut down one browser before opening another. Read More... ____________________ Source: PCmag

Sep 2, 2004, 08:51 PM	#2
RIV@NVX Freedom is a feature. Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Croatia, Rijeka Posts: 4,476 Rep Power: 67 System Specs	He didn't say anything new in that article. Facts he mentions are already well known. IE comes with OS. IE is easy to use, doesn't need to be installed. Why would Joe Average switch then? __________________ -- Vedran