Internet Explorer 8 is now the world's most used browser

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Here’s the current browser market breakdown:

* IE8 - 22.31%
* IE6 - 20.07%
* Firefox 3.5 - 17.01%
* IE7 - 14.58%
* Firefox 3.0 - 5.29%
* Chrome - 3.92%
* Safari - 3.55%

http://www.neowin.net/news/ie8-is-now-the-world039s-most-used-browser

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Hi Chris…

IE6 is still at 20%? Wow. :o

God bless :slight_smile:

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wouldn’t call that very good news, people will never learn ::slight_smile:

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I was really surprised by these results…

I have noticed that Microsoft is forcing all computers to install Internet Explorer 8 through its Windows Update

So NO WONDER why IE 8 is top

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Not everyone can afford a new system that can run IE8 though. :frowning:

There are still lots of Win98/Windows 2000 systems out there and maybe even the old original July 1993 Windows NT:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_8#System_requirements
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT

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hmmm…i wonder if there are somone still on win 3.11 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.1x ;D
could you go on the nett with 3.11 ?

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They will never have the pain to change the IE 6 to 8 ;D

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I’d like to see IE 6.0 vanish completely. As a web developer it throws up so many stupidly annoying backwards compatible coding issues that you require to spend time working around. I hate the thing!. ;D

Also, I don’t see Opera in that list?. Best browser out there IMO. 8)

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Hi Red44,

IE7 and IE8 have security issues as well at the moment, there will be a out of band patch coming:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=52252.msg465710#msg465710
I would refrain from using IE on all platforms and use it only for MS downloads to keep it up to date and fully patched *because of the consequences for your OS.

Do not click BlueE and certainly not on Windows XP SP3 for the moment,

polonus