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| Time: 19:59 EST/00:59 GMT | News Source: PC World | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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A series of highly publicized security vulnerabilities found in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser may be having an effect on the browser's market share, according to data compiled by WebSideStory, a San Diego Web metrics company. Over the last month, Internet Explorer's share of the browser market dropped by 1 percent, the first noticeable decline since WebSideStory began tracking the browser market in late 1999. | ||
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| #1 By 2459 (69.22.124.228) at 7/10/2004 11:35:28 PM |
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Anyone else think it's wierd that they (WebSideStory) are just now seeing a 1 percent drop?
Since 1999, there's been the introduction or continued availability of Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and others, and there's been the stoppage of development of IE on the Mac and Unix. In almost 5 years, this is the first time they saw a "noticeable decline" (with Mozilla/Netscape combined rising by .84%)? |
| #2 By 135 (208.186.90.168) at 7/11/2004 1:04:20 AM |
| Competition is good... it'll force Microsoft to put more effort into improving IE. |
| #3 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at 7/11/2004 2:52:33 PM |
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With XP SP2 RTM only a few weeks away - the issue is mute. Users of XP SP2 RC2 may already ignore all of this. The RTM will update over RC2. RC2 on Tablet PC's is for example, complete [Lone Star]. I have tested all versions and MCE, too and it is solid.
I can say, as security goes, it is the easiest and tightest integrated security model I have seen and it provides for easy to understand information as a system is used. I cannot wait for some of the shockers to hit the street and how new mechanisms will make it very tough on criminal hackers. Yes, I am certain other vulnerabilities will manifest themselves - new crimes always do. However, IE - especially in RC2 is still the best browser on the market. There is a lot more in the new IE than meets the eye and I wish someone would address the distinct differences between older systems and the advanced systems now available. It is a contradiction to announce this or that new verison of the OSS distros and praise them and at the same time declare that this or that percentage of users still use....X, Y, Z flavor of Windows. It's about features & quality in IE and both are there in spades. What is not addressed is that IE won not because of Windows, but because it was a better broswer and the competition was the one that departed from standards and sought to eliminate OS'es entirely - these are facts and available at the court records - please "get it" the competition wanted to take away the "personal" in personal computers and run all at their servers. If Microsoft had lost, you all be running dumb terminals subject to whatever server operators decided to feed you. "That" is why the case against Microsoft was so wrong and why competing browsers died off. .89% is not a presence at all. In our logs the only MZ and FF based requests I see, are my own tests uising alternative browsers - subjectively, what I see on screen when using them results in a big "Yuk." Slow, milky, buggy and just not as good as IE. Like it or not, Microsoft drive its own car, won the race and writes the best software available. Perfect? No....but they are working all the time to make it as close to perfect as possible. And, "So!" when it comes to tabbed browsing....most tested users do not like it and prefer the task bar - if the reverse were true, it'd be in IE - bet on that. If it is added to IE, it will be one more silly compromise that should have been ignored. |
| #4 By 11888 (64.230.11.168) at 7/11/2004 4:08:28 PM |
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#12, I suggest you go out and pick up some of this http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1592400876/qid=1089576017/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/002-4522335-1813600?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
You lost me at the point where Microsoft is driving around in a car, racing and writing software. Whether I like it or not nonetheless. #11, I keep hearing the same thing about tabs from people who have switched to Firefox. It's so simple but they think it's the coolest thing they've seen in a long time. |
| #5 By 931 (65.80.79.220) at 7/12/2004 1:24:47 AM |
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"Citibank was one of the ones hit by the keylogging worm, they even advise their users to download Mozilla/Firefox when you log in."
That's not true, as a citibank customer myself I saw no such notice, there was a message about download.ject but it did not recommending downloading mozilla firefox as the 'fix'. |
| #6 By 13030 (198.22.121.120) at 7/12/2004 10:03:58 AM |
| I'm glad more people are using Firefox. I have used it since the the earliest of beta versions and can say without question that it has been far superior to IE since its beta version 0.8. Previously, with Firefox 0.8, I stopped using IE for all but a couple of sites. Now, with 0.92, I use Firefox exclusively. |
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