The end of an era: Internet Explorer drops below 50% of Web usage<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTwo things happened during October: Internet Explorer lost its majority share of the browser market, and here at Ars, Chrome overtook Firefox for the first time ever. We think the cause could be the s…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some convincing analysis in the article as to why that's so — and why most of the competing growth has come from Chrome. 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It was just one weekend day (so far), but the trend is certainly there. And further extrapolating from the graph, I'd say the delta is at workplaces -- the percent of IE users drops on the weekend.And I'd say it's a good thing we have three significant browsers\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":44256,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/08\/forcing-ie-upgrades.html","url_meta":{"origin":23403,"position":1},"title":"Forcing IE upgrades","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-Aug-14 8:52am","format":false,"excerpt":"On the one hand, this sounds like a good policy change from Microsoft.'As we note each month, while the majority of Chrome and Firefox users are all using the newest version of those browsers, Internet Explorer has a large user base that's using old versions. 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