IE dips below 60% of market

Comments

1. 
   5 Jul 2009 ~ 3:10pm jared About damn time. Web developers rejoice.
2. 
   5 Jul 2009 ~ 4:34pm chrisWhite Party time when we hit 50%!
3. 
   5 Jul 2009 ~ 6:16pm shwaip does anyone know how they measure this?
4. 
   5 Jul 2009 ~ 6:47pm ardichoke So.... the fail is starting to fail? I don't know how to survive in a world where bad products are shunned.
5. 
   6 Jul 2009 ~ 12:42am Leonardo

   So.... the fail is starting to fail? I don't know how to survive in a world where bad products are shunned.

   A little harsh there. IE8 is not bad at all. I prefer Firefox, which I run on all my home machines, but Microsoft is not sitting idle.
6. 
   6 Jul 2009 ~ 1:39am chrisWhite IE8 is their best yet and it's beginning to get good, I don't think it deserves the first place though when Chrome, Firefox and maybe the new Opera are all better then IE8. Right now the only thing it's clearly beating on the Windows side is Safari.
7. 
   6 Jul 2009 ~ 1:12pm UPSLynx gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood.
   
   All is going according to plans.
   
   Seriously, we should throw a party when it hits 50.
8. 
   6 Jul 2009 ~ 1:14pm Thrax I predict that IE8 will become the new IE6 when the HTML5 & CSS3 specs are finalized and implemented by everyone but Microsoft.
9. 
   6 Jul 2009 ~ 1:32pm mirage I have nothing against MS and IE but all for establishment of and compliance to open standards. In that sense, this is good news.
10. 
    6 Jul 2009 ~ 3:06pm ardichoke I hear web developers everywhere getting excited... I don't know if they will be able to contain their enthusiasm if IE ever drops below 50... They would finally have a good argument against supporting it.
    
    "Hey, it's not standards compliant AND a majority of people no longer use it!"
11. 
    6 Jul 2009 ~ 3:12pm Snarkasm Ah, but what if it still has a plurality?
    
    I imagine it'll still be a while, though. Good times.
12. 
    7 Jul 2009 ~ 6:57pm Snarkasm Net Applications is reviewing their data for statistical anomalies many are thinking might be related to the sudden drop in IE usage.