If you build web-sites, and want to avoid any user with IE to access it, please find a link that will explain to you how to have the browser of your visitor crashing….
I know it will not be an issue for long because IE is fading away, finally….
Bashing Microsoft ‘like kicking a puppy’
In the series on how the war was won:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/040511-linux-vs-microsoft.html.
In 5 years, Microsoft will make its windows free for end-users.
Internet explorer officially dead
On web-sites for IT professionals, we see the Microsoft market share declining since a couple of years. Depending on target audience, we see Firefox taking somewhere in between 50% to 80%. However, statistics are statistics, and huge differences can be seen based on who is metering. In Germany/Finland, the public as a whole use open source browsers. In the Netherlands, UK, US, a lot of African countries, … you see a larger portion of the population using Internet Explorer. Everyone uses his/her own statistics to prove a point. Now, everyone seems convinced the trend is final and the world has gone one leap forward in being open and free.
Some reading: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/100510-microsoft-ie-browser-firefox-chrome.html.
Remark: Micrsoft did not acknowledge, they are still buzzing around new versions and contesting figures at the same time. At least the press is convinced and most professionals know.