IE Market Share Falls To Historic Low

An anonymous reader writes "Predicting that Microsoft will lose market share from month to month isn't especially difficult. Yet it is amazing to see the downfall of what was once a bastion for Microsoft. It appears that Microsoft can't defend IE against Firefox and, as it seems, Google's Chrome. Net Applications now believes that IE has a share of less than 60%, which is about the range that IE had in early 1999, when IE5 was launched. IE is now officially back in the 1990s. Chrome, by the way, is the fastest growing browser, both in absolute numbers and percentages. It is well ahead of Safari and more than tripled its share within 12 months."

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as a web developer, i hate you fucking ad blockers

[circletimessquare]

how do you think the shit you like gets paid for?

i mean, go ahead and block ads, nobody will ever stop you from doing that

but if you were smart, you'll shut the fuck up about it, because the more people who do that, the more the websites you like disappear. if you don't understand that, you're an idiot

show some fucking discretion, and stop telling people you block ads. its nothing to be proud of, and you are obviously so very fucking proud of your smug smarmy self

Re:good

[poetmatt]

Let's try this way:

it's significantly less secure than what any of the alternatives can do. Performance is crap, and IE9 appears to fix, well, none of that.

how is that?

I'm glad for competition, as hopefully it will drive microsoft to compete more than the show they attempted with IE9. Competition is good for all.

do you LIKE paywalls?

[circletimessquare]

the more people who act like you, the more paywalls we have

if people just let the ads appear, then WE DON'T NEED PAYWALLS

isn't that a fucking radical concept? pfffft

we can have all the free content we want, without any need to pay for anything. JUST LET THE FUCKING ADS APPEAR

but no, you don't like a little ad. well ok genius, then the more people who think like you, then content creators notice. then what? then it is more likely all content is going to be locked up beyond our reach

but you're too smug and proud of yourself to see this simple economic cause and effect of your boastful freeloading

and so we will all pay the price for your foolish pride, because more of us won't get free content, because some parasitical assholes like yourself have to smugly and loudly avoid ads

asshole: go ahead and block ads. just do it QUIETLY you fucking moron, show some simple shame for your sleazy self, so we all don't have paywalls. don't be proud of a behavior you do which threatens the free content model

is that a coherent enough point for you, you cocksucking twatstain?

what did i expect?

[circletimessquare]

that i was going to get a smug parasite to feel shame?

"the more people who act like you, the more paywalls we have

So?"

and there we have it, in a nutshell

thanks for everything, asshole