5 Reasons Why IE9 Cannot Stop IE's Decline

[jonyah]

[citation][nom]Ragnar-Kon[/nom]Yes people still use IE, for better or for worse.Where I work we actually only support two browsers for our web-based apps: Internet Explorer and Safari, the two browsers that ship with Windows and Mac OS X respectively. The R&D costs for supporting a wide-range of browsers is just too high, especially with the recent budget cuts.Having said that, most of our users (59%) use Google Chrome, which luckily has yet to fail with our web-based apps, thanks in part to Safari and Chrome using the same core engine. Safari accounts for 22%, Internet Explorer 11%, and Firefox 8%. Unfortunately, the new Firefox 4 just flat out doesn't work with the majority of our older web applications, and I don't see our development team taking the time out of our busy schedule to go back and update the older apps.But back to the article. Internet Explorer accounted for 89% of our users in 2006... and now its 11%. Honestly MANY of our users have expressed interest in moving to IE 9, but can't as they are still running Windows 2000 & XP. The IT department would LOVE to move to Windows 7, but at the moment the money just isn't there to do so.[/citation]
If your developers use true standards to begin with and didn't code to IE's special features, it wouldnt' be a problem. The real browser problem is bad coders.

 

[Guest]

I don't think Google has a chance with its cloud OS. Microsoft really does not care how IE does.
Firefox is probably shaking in their boots about Chrome because they do very little except a browser so this could really hurt Mozilla. Right now, I think Chrome is gaining strength because it is fast and its simple. Firefox will always have its user base. But I think its stagnation shows that its run out of new users. Not sure if FF4 will help that.