Search results matching tags 'Microsoft' and 'internet explorer'

RE: Internet Explorer Still Clinging to Half of Browser Market Share

mhenriday — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:08:24 GMT

Pardon me, Paul, if I take NetMarketShare's figures *** grano salis. StatCounter, with a far more extensive network, reports that today, 3 July 2012, Chrome and IE are running neck and neck with about 34 % each, with Firefox behind at around 24 %. These figures represent the market shares among the top 5 browers ; Safari and Opera complete the picture with 8 % and around 2 %, respectively, with «Other» at about the same level as Opera. My impression is that NetMarketShare consistently overstates IE's share, which may please MS shareholders in the short term, but could prove disastrous in the long term....

Henri

RE: IBM Flips IE the Finger, Fist Bumps Firefox Instead

AKwyn — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:55:29 GMT

Chainzsaw, what do you think they're making IE9 for? Catch up with the times man.

Anyway, this is nothing new. I think this is the sign of a new trend. People are starting to move away from Microsoft products and towards open-source products like Linux and Firefox and stuff from Google. I don't know what Microsoft is going to do next but it seems like their monopoly is crumbling with no hope or recovery.

Microsoft Will Push IE8 as High Priority Update

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:13:01 GMT

If you’ve tried Microsoft’s latest browser—Internet Explorer 8—and haven’t been impressed, or if you
simply haven’t felt the need to give it a spin, you’re not alone. Even though
IE8 offers a significant speed increase, better web compliance, and a handful
of other new features, the browser hasn’t been received with the warm welcome
that Microsoft would have liked. In fact, Net Applications claims IE8 makes up only
about 4% of the browser market share. IE7 still holds the largest share.

To help force users to give the new browser a try, Microsoft
plans to put IE8 in the Automatic Update queue. According to the Microsoft IEBlog, the company released IE8 as an Automatic Update to
all users who were still running pre-release versions of IE8 (Beta 2 or Release
Candidate 1) to make sure users who had chosen to install IE8 had the latest
versions.

Starting on or about the third week of April, Microsoft
plans to notify users who are still running IE6 or IE7 on Windows XP, Windows
Vista, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Server 2008. The notifications of the
new browser will come by means of Automatic Updates. The initial rollout will
start with a narrow audience and expand over time to the entire user base.
Microsoft plans to make the update a High Priority update for Windows XP and
Server 2003 users. The IE8 update will be listed as Important for Windows Vista
and Server 2008 users.

For users who don’t want to adopt the latest browser quite
yet, the good news is that IE8 won’t automatically install on machines. You
must opt-in to install IE8. Users will see a Welcome screen that offers three choices:
Ask later, install now, or don’t install. For users who decline the update, you
can install it later from http://www.microsoft.com/ie8
or from Windows Update where it will be listed as an optional update.

Organizations who use Automatic Update to keep their
computers up to date can postpone the IE8 deployment using a free Blocker Toolkit. This blocker toolkit was released in
January and has no expiration date. Microsoft recommends that organizations who
want to block the automatic distribution of IE8 have the blocking in place by
the week of April 20^th.