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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."
Firefox has managed to take ~7% of the market in a short period of time from a massively well-funded competitor on an ultra, ultra, ultra shoestring budget.
"Ultra shoestring budget"? Relative to Microsoft sure, but the vast majority of Mozilla development occured with the direct financial support of AOL, Sun and what was left of Netscape after the buyout with numerous other companies contributing. The Mozilla foundation was given millions of dollars to get started. While none of that in any way detracts from how impressive their accomplishment is, I would hardly describe them as working on "an ultra, ultra, ultra shoestring budget."
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
In related news, according to this story, IBM employees (numbering +- 300,000) are urged to switch over to Firefox. That should help the numbers even more
Yes, a decrease in growth does exactly equal the decrease in the rate of growth. That's what growth means. The rate of increase. The rate of growing.
Did you mean to say that a decrease in growth isn't the same thing as a decrease in the number of users? That's true, and maybe not as obvious to a lot of people as it should be.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
No it's not, you fucking moron.
Every time - EVERY TIME - this topic comes up, somebody smug tells us all that it's Slashdot's broken HTML. It's not. It's a bug in Firefox.
I've tried posting links to the bug report on Bugzilla. I've tried showing developer comments. I've tried reasoning. I've tried telling them Firefox 1.1 will fix it.
Every time, somebody replies "yeah, well that may be all true... but it's still Slashdot's fault." What is it with you fucking morons? What will it take for it to sink in that, yes, your precious Firefox has a bug?
Don't tell me you aren't aware of the truth. Somebody points it out every time it's mentioned - since before Firefox 1.0 was released, and they always get modded up. For some reason some subset of Firefox users are such moronic fanboys that they are unwilling to accept that it could possibly have a bug. And yes, I'm a Firefox user, I just don't like idiocy.
Try it. Just try it.
Hell, where I used to work, the Windows sysadmins were the ones who brought the viruses and trojans in while reading their hot mail accounts logged onto the primary domain controllers.
Tell your windows people to get up to speed!
--- It is not the things we do which we regret the most, but the things which we don't do.
Or when you get their page saying it won't work, just scrool to the bottom and click Home, and it will load just fine..