Browsing With Internet Explorer
If you have a computer using Microsoft Windows, surely enough you would have Internet Explorer. For new and medium users usually these free software included in the Windows are often being use by them to browse through the internet. The statistics below are taken from W3Schools refering to statistics of internet browser used by people in the internet.
By looking at it, we know that most users are still using Internet Explorer to browse through the internet. Regardless of which version of Internet Explorer, the percentage remain high compare to other internet browser. For ordinary user, the statistics remain the same but for web designer or web developer, this statistics shows a lot. The main reasons is that they should create a web that will cater for the majority of the user. There is no point that you web would look great on other browser but in Internet explorer it seems to be in a war zone.
| 2008 | IE7 | IE6 | Chrome | Fx | Moz | S | O |
| December | 26.1% | 19.6% | 3.6% | 44.4% | 0.4% | 2.7% | 2.4% |
| November | 26.6% | 20.0% | 3.1% | 44.2% | 0.4% | 2.7% | 2.3% |
| October | 26.9% | 20.2% | 3.0% | 44.0% | 0.4% | 2.8% | 2.2% |
| September | 26.3% | 22.3% | 3.1% | 42.6% | 0.5% | 2.7% | 2.0% |
| IE | Internet Explorer |
| Fx | Firefox (identified as Mozilla before 2005) |
| Chrome | Google Chrome |
| Moz | The Mozilla Suite (Gecko, Netscape) |
| S | Safari (and Konqueror. Both identified as Mozilla before 2007) |
| O | Opera |
| N | Netscape (identified as Mozilla after 2006) |
| AOL | America Online (based on both Internet Explorer and Mozilla) |
This Internet Explorer are always a target for most viruses. It is being target because the high user rate. Thus they are in danger of always getting attack by viruses. But the free software are always updated and you should regularly update your internet explorer to avoid getting viruses through you internet activity.
But this is just my assumptions, you are entitle to your own opinion here. But i would really recommend to you to download the latest internet explorer as soon as it comes out and right now the latest version would be Internet Explorer 8 Beta Version.
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