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Internet Explorer's Share Dips Below 90%

sheepoo writes "CNN has a story stating that, according to a WebSideStory report, Internet Explorer has slipped below 90% usage share for the first time." From the article: "Firefox, an open-source browser collectively developed by the Internet community under the Mozilla Foundation, had a 6.8 percent share as of April 29, an increase from 3.0 percent since WebSideStory began tracking Firefox separately in October."

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  1. Except... by Mr.+Underbridge · · Score: 4, Funny
    but I haven't run into any sites lately that require IE. Recent Mozilla handles everything just fine. Apart form some minor rendering weirdness on a few sites I haven't had to jump over to IE for anything.

    ...for, I dunno, *this* page, which still doesn't render right in Firefox.

    1. Re:Except... by forgetmenot · · Score: 2, Funny

      No. It's the HTML.
      *ducks*

  2. For the first time? by Limburgher · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, even before it was writte^H^H^H^H^H^Hcopied from Mosaic, it had 90% market share? That's AMAZING! :)

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  3. Re:No, wait! by kin_korn_karn · · Score: 2, Funny

    And just imagine what it would be like if every user cared.

  4. Re:No, wait! by m50d · · Score: 2, Funny

    Imagine if there was a way we could communicate without the internet. Waves travel well through air, perhaps we could make them somehow, and then have others interpret them and understand what we were saying.

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  5. Re:Well it was great while it lasted! by onion_cfe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anybody that ever switched from Firefox back to IE for security reasons, respond to this...

  6. Re:Surfing from work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    BSD is dying? Noooooooo!

  7. Re:Weight Watchers blocks Firefox users by Jeremi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe once FireFox gets a bit more bloated, they'll let it in.

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  8. Re:Statistics by Sir+Pallas · · Score: 3, Funny

    Interestingly, a new survey done by www.windowsupdate.com shows that 99% of the hits come from Internet Explorer.

  9. Re:I show 15.52% by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Dude, I'm getting about a 65/35 spilt between IE/Moz on my latest website at http://localhost/test

    The monopoly is coming crashing down I tells ya!