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    News - Internet Explorer bucks trend to increase market share

    Creeps over 60 per cent share again.
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    Re: News - Internet Explorer bucks trend to increase market share

    And I wonder how many of those users are IE6 users

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    Re: News - Internet Explorer bucks trend to increase market share

    Or how many know what a web browser is

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    Re: News - Internet Explorer bucks trend to increase market share

    Quote Originally Posted by Temi_D View Post
    Or how many know what a web browser is
    The proportion of these people can only be decreasing with that EU legislation, which means more people are genuinely choosing to use IE. Apart from those at work stuck on Windows 2000 and IE6, like many people at the hospital

    I myself have started using Opera more than FF due to a resource-hogging bug that causes FF to max out one core after a while of using it, necessitating an FF restart, seemingly regardless of which tabs are open. Might be a dodgy extension, but I only have about five installed and they're fairly mainstream. But I still use it on my laptop since I haven't got round to installing Opera on that, and still hope it'll be fixed in a later version.

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    Re: News - Internet Explorer bucks trend to increase market share

    Most people don't have a clue. These people will change browsers when they get new computers and they will choose Internet Explorer 9 because they havent heard of anything else.

    I have chrome and explorer installed and i genuinly prefer internet explorer 8. I don't notice a speed difference and I'd rather have options vs Chrome's good looks.

    Microsoft CAN hold the 60% is IE9 is good.

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    Re: News - Internet Explorer bucks trend to increase market share

    People don't use a web browser, they use 'google', because that's what they're home page is set to, or 'ebay'. Either that, or they use the 'e' for 'eeinternet'.

    I was an FF user, until Chrome 4. Back then, Chrome was so much faster, and I realised that 99% of the 'add-ons' I used in FF I didn't really need and could live happily without. Happy with Chrome, and it's here to stay.

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    Re: News - Internet Explorer bucks trend to increase market share

    Been using Firefox since it was called Firebird (0.7?) - still use it both at home and at work. Just don't like IE. (Tried Chrome and Opera but just don't get on with them).
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    Re: News - Internet Explorer bucks trend to increase market share

    Quote Originally Posted by Flash477 View Post
    And I wonder how many of those users are IE6 users
    Considering that Microsoft stopped selling Windows XP? No more than the past. IE7 is standard with Windows Vista and IE8 is standard with Windows 7.
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    Re: News - Internet Explorer bucks trend to increase market share

    I understand the OS war but I just dont get this browser war at all.
    I couldnt care less what browser im using or what anyone else is using. Im not that fussed at potentially saving 0.8 nano seconds of loading time between browsers.

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    Re: News - Internet Explorer bucks trend to increase market share

    Quote Originally Posted by AGTDenton View Post
    I understand the OS war but I just dont get this browser war at all.
    I couldnt care less what browser im using or what anyone else is using. Im not that fussed at potentially saving 0.8 nano seconds of loading time between browsers.
    It all started with Netscape and Microsoft. When you have something that dominated the market for years at like 95% and was an insecure pile of crap (IE6) then wouldn't you want a better option?
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    Re: News - Internet Explorer bucks trend to increase market share

    Quote Originally Posted by AGTDenton View Post
    I understand the OS war but I just dont get this browser war at all.
    I couldnt care less what browser im using or what anyone else is using. Im not that fussed at potentially saving 0.8 nano seconds of loading time between browsers.
    It's not really that for me, i use firefox and its simply for the customizability.

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