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For those of you not old enough to witness the time before SC1 was launched, there was once a Great War fought between the legendary Netscape against the unscrupulous and despicable Internet Explorer.
Back in those Win 3.x and Win 95 days, Windows was famous for its Blue Screen of Death. If system itself hasn't failed you already, using IE will finish the job. IE was truly a despicable child. But the availability IE4 on Win 95 machines made its popularity spread like gonorrhea. Netscape 5 fell critically ill as millions of uninformed users became infected with IE4.
IE4 became triumphant, IE5 and IE6 landed more crippling blows with IE7 delivering the coup de grace. Netscape was shutdown in 2008. The bastard child IE reigned the web supreme.
[To see why IE's birth was illegitimate, click on spoiler]+ Show Spoiler +http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyglass,_Inc.
However, as Netscape falls from grace, a new generation of browsers were created which sown the seeds for the Second War. For quite some time, we are aware that Firefox et al has been chipping away market share at the expense of IE. But last month, this this level of erosion is approaching a critical stage. IE now only holds 51% of market and a free-for-all is about to being between the major contenders.
+ Show Spoiler +http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
Most of us may be oblivious as to why this is important. From the First War, both Netscape and IE raced to grab market by introducing new features which were incompatible with each other. Furthermore, the arms race lead to negligence in safety. Of course, when Netscape was defeated, most website designers complied to the standards of IE. Even today, many websites can only be viewed properly from IE. But with IE soon failing the 50% mark, things are going to be exciting on the net.
And with the potential collapse of IE in sight, especially losing to an NFP project, supremacy of Microsoft's proprietary business model as a whole can be questioned. The mere suspicion that a rival like Linux can challenge the profitable Windows establishment can cause MSFT price to fall. Or at the very least, allow competitors to rise. In fact, APPL is now worth $251B compared to MSFT at $218B.
Make no mistake, War is coming!
Latest News:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
Fire Fox is now the most popular browser in EU and IE has now dropped below the 50% mark.
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It's about time for Internet Explorer to die. The sooner the better imo
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I hope Google Chrome wins.
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is there anything good about IE at all? granted, i havent checked in forever, but i still highly doubt it. also a lot of sites are recommending viewing in firefox, sooo
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Google Chrome. Superior browser
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Obey the Google overmind and you will prosper! I seriously wish I could uninstall IE's existence from my laptop, but alas that trash is the only program that let me download new drivers.
End this war swiftly Chrome!
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personally, i only use IE on certain websites that can only work properly with IE. else i m FF.
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We are <Google>soft. You will be assimilated.
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i used to firefox too but chrome has been so much better
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TL's numbers:
Firefox: 51.94%
Chrome: 25.72%
Internet Explorer: 11.54%
Safari: 6.29%
Opera: 3.89%
Chrome is growing pretty fast, or maybe just popular among the SC2 crowd. January (pre-beta) numbers:
Firefox: 57.43%
Internet Explorer: 17.29%
Chrome: 14.68%
Opera: 5.33%
Safari: 4.56%
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I wish IE would win. We still need people that do not run ad-blocker, thus generating revenues for most of the websites out there.
If everyone runs Firefox / Chrome + adblock, very soon every website will be starting to charge monthly fees.... starting from google.
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My beloved Opera... why you're always the least used browser 
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http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=153264
GO IE
As IE is frankly the default browser for the most popular OS on the consumer end i have nothing but high hopes for making it great. As if most people are using it i wish that it's the best fucking browser on the planet to opposite it is to wish harm upon others, clearly with this lol style logic.
Also saying IE is illegitimate would make a ton of browser illegitimate for those reasons.
Microsoft's proprietary business model as a whole can be questioned
lol anti proprietary person are ya t-t
Also using the market cap prices is not a show of microsoft's net worth, apple is a let's face it growing company esp ever sense they released the ipod it's an inflated market cap =p
On September 18 2010 15:08 Madcatcf wrote:My beloved Opera... why you're always the least used browser
marketing, opera has like none. it's like why is amd intel's bitch over these past years, well one intel just is doing better stuff lol and 2ndly intel advertises like a whore.
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Go Chrome 
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On September 18 2010 14:59 SonuvBob wrote:
TL's numbers:
Firefox: 51.94%
Chrome: 25.72%
Internet Explorer: 11.54%
Safari: 6.29%
Opera: 3.89%
Chrome is growing pretty fast, or maybe just popular among the SC2 crowd. January (pre-beta) numbers:
Firefox: 57.43%
Internet Explorer: 17.29%
Chrome: 14.68%
Opera: 5.33%
Safari: 4.56%
Man, what's with this opera->other stuff shift? Opera for life, baby. Though realistically I use Opera, Firefox, and Chrome, in order of decreasing frequency.
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At first i was a firefox user, then chrome, then switched back to firefox because chrome changed it's colour to an ugly grey and firefox4 beta looks so pretty.
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On September 18 2010 15:24 SpiritoftheTunA wrote:Show nested quote +On September 18 2010 14:59 SonuvBob wrote:
TL's numbers:
Firefox: 51.94%
Chrome: 25.72%
Internet Explorer: 11.54%
Safari: 6.29%
Opera: 3.89%
Chrome is growing pretty fast, or maybe just popular among the SC2 crowd. January (pre-beta) numbers:
Firefox: 57.43%
Internet Explorer: 17.29%
Chrome: 14.68%
Opera: 5.33%
Safari: 4.56% Man, what's with this opera->other stuff shift? Opera for life, baby. Though realistically I use Opera, Firefox, and Chrome, in order of decreasing frequency.
Why use so many, i just use opera or IE just because not every website likes opera.
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I demand a poll retake-- Chrome for life..
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Chrome, easily. Then IE if I have to, considering it's already there and I need a backup browser so rarely. I'd only use Firefox if I used it most of the time and had a bunch of addons for it.
Also, prototype, you can download a bunch of different themes to change the browser color.
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On September 18 2010 15:24 SpiritoftheTunA wrote:Show nested quote +On September 18 2010 14:59 SonuvBob wrote:
TL's numbers:
Firefox: 51.94%
Chrome: 25.72%
Internet Explorer: 11.54%
Safari: 6.29%
Opera: 3.89%
Chrome is growing pretty fast, or maybe just popular among the SC2 crowd. January (pre-beta) numbers:
Firefox: 57.43%
Internet Explorer: 17.29%
Chrome: 14.68%
Opera: 5.33%
Safari: 4.56% Man, what's with this opera->other stuff shift? Opera for life, baby. Though realistically I use Opera, Firefox, and Chrome, in order of decreasing frequency.
It's not that people have switched browsers, just that there's so many more visitors now. Apparently SC2 players don't use Opera.
I'm kinda surprised IE didn't go up, actually. :p
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