Comments on: Microsoft is on fire this week, a non-biased browsers chart

By: Microsoft losing shares + Youtube to drop IE6 support « Position Absolute

Microsoft losing shares + Youtube to drop IE6 support « Position Absolute — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:23:29 +0000

[...] Microsoft had its hands full. Microsoft also had bad press on major content provider with the false and bad advertising of IE8 they did. Globally Microsoft now owns 54.% of the browsers share, back [...]

By: sebastian

sebastian — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:09:27 +0000

the only real advantage i see in this chart is “Manageability”. this is clearly a win for microsoft.

concerning the “Reliability”… ie8 just crashed today

By: Chris Pratt

Chris Pratt — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:33:34 +0000

Microsoft simply convolutes all the data to swing it in their favor.

In Security, for example, IE does have more notices, toolbars, preferences, popup boxes, etc. related to security, which is all they’re saying in that field. What they don’t mention is that Firefox and Chrome actually natively DISALLOWS malware to run, whereas IE natively ALLOWS malware to run (ActiveX). All the security measures in IE are there to add a layer of protection over their poorly designed codebase.

Reliability is based on what’s available to you once there’s ALREADY a problem (the tab/browser has crashed). It says nothing about how often that event happens. Firefox and Chrome are more stable overall than IE.

And performance! What a joke. You don’t need stop motion video to see the difference. I’d say that Firefox 3.0 and IE8 are virtually tied in page load time, but Firefox 3.5 RC renders a page near instantly. Chrome is also noticeably faster than IE. Note that: *noticeably*. And, Safari 4.0, which didn’t make it to the list blows everyone else out of the water. In fact, in speed test after speed test since IE8’s release it has *consistently* underperformed compared to all competitors. Yeah, some tie there.

By: bwt

bwt — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:43:07 +0000

My company just removed IE from the list of supported browsers for our most heavily used internal app. FU, MS.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:49:42 +0000

Pfft. canvas.

By: Benedict Aluan

Benedict Aluan — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:41:24 +0000

No comment.

By: Cedric Dugas

Cedric Dugas — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:55:39 +0000

@Rob yea I don’t think they are lying once, they just turn around everything to make them look good.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:40:36 +0000

They claim a “tie” for web standards support but then only mention CSS2.1 while failing to mention they don’t support XHTML served as XHTML at all, or SVG and are 11 years behind in DOM support among other things.