WordPress 2.0 Lures Internet Explorer Users to Alternatives

December 22nd, 2005 On this website Internet Explorer users have snatched back their majority share. Internet Explorer users comprise 49.08 % of total users.

December 7th, 2007 Microsoft was the sole leading browser (all versions combined) in 2002-2003 with over 85% of market share. The earlier leader Netscape had by then sunk into oblivion.

November 21st, 2005 WordPress.com has finally opened for free signup by everyone. You no longer have to be a privileged invitee or a Flock user or use my hack to get an invotation.

March 24th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Despite some initial glowing reviews, Microsoft has been flooded with complaints about its new Internet Explorer 8 and has seen early users downgrade to the previous version, Information Week has reported.The software giant is hoping that its new browser will help stem a steady flight of surfers to rival products, most notably the open-source Firefox browser. According to the latest figures, Firefox now controls 22 percent of the browser market compared to 67 percent for Internet Explorer, which once enjoyed more than 90 percent of the market.

October 21st, 2005 I use and test my web applications and blogs primarily on Firefox these days. I do however occassionally look at Internet Explorer.

July 12th, 2005 I have started a page dedicated to WordPress users only. Here you will find links to latest WordPress plugins, news, information, tips, how-to and guidelines.

June 12th, 2009 Microsoft is to strip its Internet Explorer browser from the new version of its Windows 7 operating system that it sells in Europe, the company announced Thursday. Microsoft said the move was designed to meet criticism from European Union (EU) regulators who have launched an investigation into whether bundling the browser with the operating system is in breach of European anti-trust rules.

July 26th, 2007 You would be surprised to know that the biggest Internet Explorer issue I am facing while writing rather complex cross-browser javascript code is related to just a comma. In javascript array if you add a comma after the last element in the array then Internet Explorer fails with a variety of undecipherable (Microsoft style) error messages.

March 2nd, 2005 I have upgraded this blog to WordPress 1.5. With it I am progressively redesigning this blog to simplify accessing of *content*.

May 6th, 2007 Are you a developer or QA engineer, in an all Linux workplace, always looking for scarce Windows machines to run Microsoft Internet Explorer for testing your product and services? You could also be the manager who is eager to switch to Linux but cannot do so because of strong requirement for testing on Internet Explorer. You are in luck.

June 12th, 2009 EU: browser-free Windows gives no real choiceBRUSSELS — European Union regulators said Microsoft Corp. was offering less choice, not more, by vowing to sell the next version of Windows without any Web browsers at all.

October 23rd, 2005 WordPress.Com is a commercial venture from the authors of popular weblogging software - WordPress. They provide free weblog to selected individuals based on God-knows-what criteria.

January 18th, 2007 WordPress is a popular blogging software which is used in this blog and lot of blogs on the internet. One of the frequently asked questions was how can we get older versions of WordPress.

August 28th, 2006 I think few graphs will clearly illustrate the gulf of difference between these two leading browsers (Internet Explorer 6.x & Firefox 1.x) in terms of security. Let's start with our favorite whipping boy,market leader Internet Explorer 6.x, shall we? Internet Explorer 6.x Security Advisories Source: Secunia Firefox 1.x Security Advisories Source: Secunia Now let's look at their criticality.

February 22nd, 2006 Simple Thoughts Blog had a sporadic but consistent comment problem. On submitting comments a blank page was occasionally returned instead of the original page with the comment added.