Bear, Diah and Pasha

Internet Explorer is Still Popular

Posted on the October 17th, 2008 under Browser by Papa Bear

Even though more than 60% of visitors visting this blog is using Firefox, the worlwide usage share of web browsers still shows that Internet Explorer (IE) si still the top web browser in the world.

If you look at the chart on the left, IE still holds a big 72.22% usage leaving the others way behind. Why?

Technically, I would not be able to answer you as I am using Firefox as my main web browser while IE and Chrome are used only for making sure that this blog has no problem on the other two.

Personally, I would be able to give my opinion as to why IE is still very popular out there. Firstly, most people use Microsoft Windows instead of Mac or Linux. The fact that Windows is more user friendly to the common people, makes it almost the default OS for most computers.

Therefore, IE comes installed with Windows and it is ready to use with some minor settings required. Some of the computer vendors would even do it for their customers without any extra charge. All the user needs to do is click IE and they are connected to the internet.

Secondly, this is related to the common people who bought computers above. Most of them thought that by installing another web browser, they can no longer use their IE. In fact, when I got my first computer, I had that very same idea too and therefore, I stick to IE.

Only after getting to know more about computers and internet, I leaned that a computer can run multiple web browsers at the same time since they are nothing but just like any another program that can be run on a computer. It took me a while to have the guts to install Firefox and I have never looked back since then.

In conclusion, those are the two major factors, in my opinion, that let IE be where they are right now and not because they are more superior to the other browsers. I am sure IE fanatics would shoot me down like flies when they read this. But then, I am just stating my opinion and nothing more.

To bloggers out there, do not dismiss IE if you are already using other web browsers. Make sure that you test load your blog on IE to ensure that they have no problem so that the 72%+ IE users are able to read it. If not, your blog would be skipped and that would be your loss.