Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Mar 2008 21:15 UTC
Ars takes a closer look at the Internet Explorer 8 beta (released yesterday), and concludes. "Niggles aside, IE8 is shaping up quite well. Clearly, a lot of work has been done on standards compliance, and it looks like it's paying off. If IE8's development continues down the path it's on, it will finally be a version of Internet Explorer fit for the 21st century."
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It's true their market share has dwindled, but to the average punter this makes little difference because IE is basically all they know.
Maybe so. But in many parts of Europe, Firefox is already as big as IE according to statistics, and Opera is popular too. And it is not that many years ago when many organizations used Netscape as their official main browser. If people are smart enough to install other software on their machines besides of the default MS Windows stuff like Notepad and Patience, why wouldn't they bother installing a better browser too? Things like popularity of browsers can change.
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Maybe so. But in many parts of Europe, Firefox is already as big as IE according to statistics, and Opera is popular too. And it is not that many years ago when many organizations used Netscape as their official main browser. If people are smart enough to install other software on their machines besides of the default MS Windows stuff like Notepad and Patience, why wouldn't they bother installing a better browser too? Things like popularity of browsers can change.