Internet Explorer Market Share Slide Represents the Inevitable
January 3, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Desktops, Laptops, Ramblings of a Gadget Geek, Trends
Amazingly, for all the web design nightmares it causes, Internet Explorer 6 has proven pretty resilient. Despite being the oldest version of Microsoft’s maligned web browser, over 40% of web users used it, according to web analytics firm Omniture (as of December 2007).
It’s as if those pesky customers refused to update to a more advanced browser (heck, even IE7 would’ve provided a better and more secure browsing environment). Thus, it seemed that companies like 37signals and Google had to take the lead, having to publicly announce that they would no longer bother making future and current projects work properly on IE6, an application that was released way back in 2001. Read more
