Megan — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 13:21:11 +0000

Yes exactly - I've been trying to tell my mom to just use Opera for a few days. It just takes time to get used to. The same thing happened with her screen resolution. On her old desktop machine she'd be annoyed with me for bumping it up to 1024 but this year she got a new laptop and it was set there in the first place and she didn't even notice!

I did read recently that a few major computer manufacturers (forget which) are going to start including Netscape (!) in their default installs. Actually, a lot of people around the university I work for recommend Netscape. No idea why. Stuck in 1998, I'm sure.

robfenn — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 10:19:43 +0000

Its going to take one major company to recommend Firefox and we will see the demise of IE i think. My dad is not very computer literate but read an article on Firefox and switched, so the general public must be aware of it.

My sister won't use Firefox because it confuses her, i can't see how it can but i think it proves a lot of people simply don't like change!

-Rob

Renegade — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 00:18:46 +0000

locatepeople wrote: all computers come with IE installed on them except amcs. IE is also the first software people become familiar with when introduced to the internet. Unless that changes IE will always stay at the top.

You forgot to mention people who use Linux

locatepeople wrote: and remember everyone that has mozilla or firefox or opera also has IE, guarenteed.

No, not guaranteed, I have Firefox and Opera and I don't have IE, once again, you forgot about Linux

fifeclub — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:06:32 +0000

Megan wrote: They say that there seems to be a finite number of people interested in switching and that the market is getting closer to reaching that point.

Perhaps. I agree that the majority of computer users will only use what is already pre-installed, but I do see another 800-pound gorilla waiting in the wings that could help out. They're old rumors but there are still rumors of the gbrowser and of it being based on Firefox code. You'll still never get those people who never install anything but I think there are still plenthy of people that could be swayed to try it if a big name like Google promoted its superiority. We can only hope.

locatepeople — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 14:16:48 +0000

all computers come with IE installed on them except amcs. IE is also the first software people become familiar with when introduced to the internet. Unless that changes IE will always stay at the top.

and remember everyone that has mozilla or firefox or opera also has IE, guarenteed.

nicora — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 05:51:56 +0000

moz had a short run, but for the first time a month ago, ie recaptured its market share. no, i dont see ie loosing its spot as the number one browser. regardless how much it sucks, you need to continue to support it. period.

ps: you need to support every other browser too, doesnt matter the market share, every viewer counts, even ie or opera or moz or safari.

demonhale — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 01:40:48 +0000

Or based on the statistics of how many ignorant people there is, including the stubborn ones... LOL

Busy — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 22:16:20 +0000

I hate fake articles like this
It's just someone sitting in an office who has probably never even heard of linux or anything work doesn't provided, that needed a story and went to some site that collects stats.
The outcome, IE running away with hits. lets break it down ...
Opera comes set as IE, mozilla has a agent switcher which is a common download just so people can still view non web-standard websites as IE would.
So where is the proof? These folks like to report these claims but never back them up, I would love to see how someone measured the usage, a poll? from someones blog web stats, the local tea leaf reader perhaps, probably based on sales of new PC's even thou a lot of people install other browsers and operating systems straight away.

technostick — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:50:59 +0000

IE, as many of you might know, stands for Internet Exploder. Bang!

demonhale — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:35:23 +0000

Yeah thats why ive been posting up several ads for opera and FF, I hate IE for non-standard compliance... Even in my class and where I go to; even my friends cafe or where I usually install softwares, I always install Opera as an alternative browser for them (which is way much better than IE in this case)... Still they really insist in using IE because its named Internet Explorer as if its the only thing that can Explore the Internet, Also when I give seminars and the like, or even on my lessons I tell them to switch to either FF or Opera.

We need to spread the word. I like the Sig of one of our members her saying "Internet Explorer, a tool that you use to download Opera (or FF)" not exactly the same but the point is evident...

I usually check on IE last for browser incompatibility, then I just dont get it why still MS doesnt seem to bother getting the software compliant, Ill banter more but I hate typing to many IE's so Ill start calling it "IT"...