Posts tagged “internet explorer”

TechCrunch's misleading graph makes it look like Firefox is nearly tied with IE. The real picture: IE still dominates at 55%. The genuinely good news is IE6 finally dropped below 10% market share, but Firefox victory laps are premature.

Curious whether Microsoft's own web developers secretly hate IE6 as much as the rest of us do.

My weekly tech roundup: IE7 is actually a decent browser, fixing bugs that made my life miserable. But Microsoft is force-installing it as a "security update," which will confuse novices, anger power users, and break every Flash-based site on the web. Good product, terrible delivery. Typical.

Post-9/11, the Nimda virus feels trivial by comparison. Still, it's notable as the first virus you can catch just by viewing a webpage, exploiting an IE 5.5 security hole. Here's a demo and the CERT advisory if you want details.