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IE 8 loses market share already

by on25 March 2009

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People are going back to IE7


Punters have given a thumbs down to Microsoft's new IE 8 browser and are frantically going back to the older IE 7. The browser, which has only be available for download for a week, is already losing ground.

At the beginning of the week it held 2.58 per cent of the market, according to market watcher Net Applications. However it has now slumped to 1.86 per cent and it appears that figure is because people are going back to IE 7.

IE 8 comes packed with new tools which might take some getting used to, but the feeling is the problem is related to Microsoft's adherence to new Web publishing standards that aren't supported by a number of major Web publishers. Most of the web has been designed around the quirks of IE 7 which used standards as a rough guideline and ended up creating a standard of its own.

With Microsoft getting fundamentalist and moving to real standards this time, some Internet Exploder users can't open some sites. This is not Microsoft's fault really as the sites should be based around the same standards. But even Microsoft's own website had problems and the outfit's Publisher software can't render properly in the new browser.
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