People who are capable of updating their own windows across major releases and more than capable of installing their own browser :)
On May 20, 11:19 am, Peter Becker <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it will highly depend on the success of Windows 7. The same > effect that happened with IE6 might happen with IE8 in a corporate > environment: it might be deemed good enough so there will be no business > case for installing anything else. Consumers will probably be pushed > ahead to IE9 by the automated updates, if that is not significantly > worse than Chrome/Firefox/etc. then the Windows crowd might largely stay > with IE8/9. It will be a long time before any large site will stop > supporting IE8. > > OTOH: at least Firefox has made itself a bit of a name in the less > computer-savvy crowd, which will make it easier for the technically > inclined to push their friends over to some other browser. It doesn't > even have to be Firefox, the main change is that the (Internet Browser > == IE) equation has been broken in people's heads. > > Peter > > On 20/05/10 17:51, Moandji Ezana wrote: > > > What I'm wondering is if IE9 is a great browser, will it boost > > Microsoft's market share? Or was IE's earlier market share an > > untenable anomaly anyway, which is now sinking to a more reasonable > > level? > > > Moandji > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "The Java Posse" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
