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Do you use IE?

Yes, it's fast! 37 24.34%
 
No, I hate IE. 29 19.08%
 
Yes, but only because I have to. 5 3.29%
 
Just to download Chrome 29 19.08%
 
Just to download Firefox 32 21.05%
 
Just to download Opera 5 3.29%
 
I still use Netscape 1 0.66%
 
I use the PS3 browser 4 2.63%
 
I use the Wii U browser 4 2.63%
 
I use the Xbox 360 browser, oh wait. 6 3.95%
 
Total:152
platformmaster918 on 05 December 2012
thranx said:
i have been wanting to switch from firefox as i have been having problems with it lately. Does IE have ad block and no script add ons available?


I know chrome has adblock




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bananaking21 on 05 December 2012

but wasnt microsofts other business's collapsing and the xbox wont be able to help according to yahoo just yesterday?



Porcupine_I on 05 December 2012

Yahoo news? what's the second headline? Some celebrity wearing the same dress as another celebrity at a award ceremony?



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Horrorfest on 05 December 2012

IE has been a joke for years now. It won't change. Google runs the show. Apple and Amazon run the tablet market. Apple and Samsung run the phone division. Not enough room for Microsoft.



kain_kusanagi on 05 December 2012
Horrorfest said:
IE has been a joke for years now. It won't change. Google runs the show. Apple and Amazon run the tablet market. Apple and Samsung run the phone division. Not enough room for Microsoft.


IE is still the most used Browser because it comes with the msot uses OS.

I personly don't like Chrome becuase it's features are so spartan. I do like Firefox because it's so feature rich, but it has gotten big and slow. IE is now the fast one and it still comes with every Windows PC.

Apple and Amazon may run the tblet market now and Samsung and Apple may own phones, but MS could easily break in with the right deals with the right providers. That's why MS has unified their operating systems. Now you will have one profile on all your devices, if you buy into MS products. Your Home PC, Work Tablet and your Smart Phone will all work the same, be the same, act the same, and have access to all your stuff. That's a pretty powerfull message considering that most people don't understand why their iPad won't print photos to their wireless pinter hooked up to their Windows PC or why they can't edit a MS Word doc on their Android tablet without a 3rd party app.

Windows 8 is Microsofts answer. Make all your devices Windows 8 and they will all work together.

Time will tell if the average consumer will switch to make their lives a little less complexe, but it's deffinitly a good strategy.

The one thing that MS can do that nobody else can is convince businesses to go all Windows 8 for MS Office. Businesses want to embrace tablets but they still need MS Office and access to desktop PC. Windows 8 devices will be the only place to use MS Office from both Tablet and PC and back and forth. Desktop mode is under the fun Metro stuff just waiting for you to do actual work. That's the kind of stuff that sells millions of devices to businesses.