5 Reasons Why IE9 Cannot Stop IE's Decline

[doive1231]

IE9 copies features of its rivals when I believe Microsoft should always innovate. Seeing the file download bar at the bottom of the browser window was embarrassing.

 

[makaveli316]

"Windows 7 is garbage and Firefox is crashing"

People you're embarrassing yourself, please shut the **** up, you're ridiculous!!!

 

[Pherule]

For those commenting on Linux, there are only two mainstream OSes that have any future as big players, and that is Microsoft and Google OS. I recently tried Ubuntu (9.10) - I've tried Linux before and I had really hoped they'd fix some of the glaring issues over the years, but I'm sad to say that Linux is going nowhere. Oh it'll continue to be used exclusively, but if you expect it to be in 20% or more homes worldwide any time in the future, then you're badly mistaken.

I tried to install something. A simple application - and I ended up downloading about 5 different applications for Ubuntu to try to get what I wanted working like it worked in XP. I ended up settling on two choices out of those 5 downloads. Guess what. Neither would install.

Oh I'm sure they would have installed eventually, had I persisted, but there is no simplicity like in windows. With XP/Win7 the general public takes it for granted that they can simply download an exe, double click it, and have it installed and working perfectly in moments. For the general public, transfering to Linux would be a nightmare.


Now moving on, I can't see how anyone can stand using Chrome. Maybe I'd switch to it if:

1. It stopped with the massive automatic updates thing. Seriously, if I want my browser to update, I would *prefer* for it to ask me before downloading the update.

2. Oh the lag, the horrible lag. Yes, Chrome may be the second fastest browser (?) when it comes to loading pages, but what about the actual browser responsiveness? Pfft, IE6 is more responsive than Chrome. (Oh and yes, my computer is more than fast enough, thank you very much)

3. Get some features. I'm not asking Chrome to become FF3 with 50 addons, but c'mon, give the general user some powerful options like Opera does. I just can't use a browser that has next to zero customization. PS. Chrome addons are really terrible, and need to be fixed to work closer to what FF has. Even Opera implements its addons way better than Chrome does.

 

[thearm]

[citation][nom]bugo30[/nom]You misspelled "redundent".[/citation]

Your period belongs inside of your quotes.

 

[randomizer]

[citation][nom]sykozis[/nom]Why is HTML5 such a big deal? It hasn't even been finalized yet!!!! Before deciding whether a "standard" will impact a browser's adoption rate....how about we wait for that "standard" to actually exist first??? HTML5 can't become a "standard" until it is finalized.[/citation]
Did 802.11n need to become a ratified standard before it was useful? I recall seeing thousands of Draft-n devices.

[citation][nom]Pherule[/nom]and I ended up downloading about 5 different applications for Ubuntu to try to get what I wanted working like it worked in XP. [/citation]
You tried to make it like XP? You're using Linux, maybe you should have tried to make it work like Linux.

[citation][nom]Pherule[/nom]I ended up settling on two choices out of those 5 downloads. Guess what. Neither would install.[/citation]
This "downloading" that you keep referring to sounds to me like you went to the website and downloaded a source tarball. Well of course it isn't going to install. You're doing it wrong.

[citation][nom]Pherule[/nom]Oh I'm sure they would have installed eventually, had I persisted, but there is no simplicity like in windows. With XP/Win7 the general public takes it for granted that they can simply download an exe, double click it, and have it installed and working perfectly in moments.[/citation]
In Linux (or more specifically, Ubuntu) they don't need to find and download an exe, double click it and install it. They simply need to open up the Software Center, search for what they're after, and click install. It's just a different way of doing things. At least this way there's no risk of picking a bad mirror full of spyware for that must-have browser toolbar. If you had followed the Windows method in Linux and wondered why things weren't working, you obviously forgot that Linux is not Windows.

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]bugo30[/nom]You misspelled "redundent".[/citation]

Awesome job on pointing that out. Here's a cookie.

 

[internetlad]

everybody who says "people still use IE LOL I use (x) Browser" clearly haven't tried IE9.

I think that's the biggest thing. All the hipster tech nerds run around talking about how they don't use "popular" browsers because they're "not as good". Well big news is that IE9 IS good again.

 

[johnners2981]

I like IE9 and firefox 4, why take sides? You're only limiting your options

 

[johnners2981]

I wish journalists weren't so biased, some people take their opinions as fact

 

[Guest]

It's hard to put any faith in the authors oppinions, since his facts about IE 7 only working on win 7 is obviously incorrect. He is right, it will not work on xp but vista is most defiantly supported. http/support.microsoft.com/kb/2409098 .
Any one running xp at this point should upgrade, and Microsoft should not have to support this os any longer than it has. One can look at this several ways. Xp was a fine enough os that after 11 years, it still works for those people. Let's give a bit of credit of Microsoft for supporting it this long and the fact it still works for a lot of people. And let's not bash them or killing support after 11 years. Really what other software company provides 11 years of backwards compatibility.

 

[kikireeki]

You do not need to be a psychic to figure out the problem: The lack of frequent updates and convenient add-ons are the major reasons behind IE decline.

 

[hixbot]

Newsflash, MS main interest is getting the billions of people to upgrade from XP to Windows 7. That potential income stream 1000s of times bigger than any browser revenue. They are sacrificing browser share (amongst other things) to push people off of XP. They would be stupid to give XP IE9, DX10/11 etc.

 

[Guest]

thanks to chrome and firefox we now have IE9. thats why we need competition

 

[Guest]

IE9 broke a webpage of mine. Using AJAX in would load html into a div. The HTML included an embedded image inside of another div. IE8 didn't have a problem with that. IE8 was able to see that there is room for text. IE 9 doesn't see it that way and bunches the text up against the side of its div -- with the text then spilling out into the text below the div. The bit with the text? I was getting that with IE 6 but no other browser. The problem with the image? A new MS innovation.

I am truly impressed!

 

[theshonen8899]

We don't need five reasons, we just need one: It's still slow.
I don't know what all this jibberish is about with IE being way faster but based on my tests, Opera is still way faster while also having a much more customizable interface.

 

[flachet]

If I were Microsoft I would ditch the browser arena completely. It adds nothing to the OS or the company. Let Firefox have the show and focus on areas that actually matter. It would save tons of money...

 

[cookoy]

safari showing strong gains - this is news to me rather than IE's decline

 

[Guest]

Its a BROWSER, get over it, who even cares what browser you use!

 

[cadder]

You guys are ignoring the most important feature- Mozilla is much safer than IE. Browse indiscriminately with IE and you will pick up lots of malware. Go to the same places with Mozilla and you're safe.

 

[foogoo]

Bread makes me poop.