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Sandra Rivera

Firefox, Chrome, Safari have finally killed Internet Explorer - 0 views

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shared by Sandra Rivera on 24 May 10 - Cached
  • IE dropped below 60% — 59.79% to be precise. 59.79% sounds like a lot, but you need to remember that IE comes pre-installed on most computers sold in the world.
  • So, a great percentage of that 40.21% who doesn’t use explorer are people who had to actively do something (see: download another browser and install it) to give IE the boot.
  • It will be hard for IE to get that market share back. The trend is not looking good. Even if the other browsers magically started declining, IE has another problem: the mobile world.
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  • I have only ever met one person in my life with a Windows Mobile phone, and they hated using it.
  • We did it for the browser, and it was quite a challenge. We did it with hard work, advocacy, sweat. We did it for the browser… and we can do the same for the desktop world as a whole.
  • Sandra Rivera on 24 May 10
     
    No, I don't agree that Internet Explorer is dead. However, there has been a significant progress in the adoption of alternative browsers, which is a healthy way to avoid a monopoly in browsers, which are the gate to internet for end users.  The decline in the use of IE thanks to the participation of open source browsers is acknowledged here. 
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