I've long hated Internet Explorer. I won't really go into the technical details of why, just to say that Internet Explorer is the worst browser and anyone still using it (regardless of the version) needs to switch now. Well the good news is, people are doing just that! IE has been in a steady decline for several years while Firefox has been on the rise and Google's Chrome is on a rapid climb. It's now official, for the first time in over a decade IE accounts for less than half of the browsing done on the Internet. If you look at just desktop computers or if you add in tablets and smart phones, IE is in a downward spiral.
Anyone who's a fan of IE could point out that IE is still the single largest browser in use with almost the same amount of use as Firefox and Chrome combine. My answer to that is to look more closely at the numbers. The best figure I can find is over 91% of all desktop computers run Microsoft Windows, with the remaining 9% running another operating system such as MacOS or Linux. So what this means is over 91% of the computers on the Internet come with IE preinstalled, and yet IEs share has dropped to less than half, which means a lot of people are bothering with the trouble to download and install a better browser (i.e. Firefox and/or Chrome).
So if you haven't already downloaded Firefox and/or Chrome, you need to do so. Let's see how low we can get IEs market share.
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