Figures suggest that over half the world’s internet users have IE, which started a legal battle between Microsoft and the European commission back in January 2009.
The European rules that Microsoft’s grip on the browser market was unfair, and more choice should be provided to the end user. This in turn has forced Microsoft to an update which is currently being tested at the moment in Belgium, France and the UK. The software update choice will arrive automatically for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 customers, according to a blog post by Dave Heiner, Microsoft’s vice president and deputy general counsel.
Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera are the alternative browsers that people will be offered, or the user can select to stick with the browser they currently use. Once the update is released it will be interesting whether we see a major shift in the follow browser usage stats.
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2009 |
IE8 |
IE7 |
IE6 |
Firefox |
Chrome |
Safari |
Opera |
| December | 13.5% | 12.8% | 10.9% | 46.4% | 9.8% | 3.6% | 2.3% |
I’m not sure if the majority of people will stick or change, I personally hope it manages to reduce the 10.9% still using IE6 making it very difficult for web designers all over the world to do their work and push the web forward.
Tags: browser, Web Design
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