Majority of businesses will adopt Internet Explorer 8+

Computer Weekly ^ | 16 Oct 2009

[george76]

Computer Weekly, in association with ResearchNow Business, surveyed 500 users to discover which web browser they use at work and at home.

Over half of the panellists predicted IE 8+ was the browser that they will be using by the end of 2010, both personally and for their business.

[CedarDave]

IE8 is quite good. I haven’t used Firefox until recently and was pretty impressed. It’s actually very good. I think I’ll still stick with IE8 though.

The thing about Firefox is that by using their addons, you can do one-click HTML commands for italics, bold, underline, strikeouts, font size and color, images and URLs.

[RayChuang88]

Where I work, we’ve been using IE 7.0 since July 2007, mostly because it’s been tested to work with the company intranet and because we needed the ability to view multiple intranet sites in tabbed browsing mode. There are plans to start rolling out IE 8.0 starting early 2010, mostly because by the end of 2009 all of the desktop machines in my workplace will be running machines with Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs, Windows XP Professional (SP3), 2 GB of RAM, at least a 100 GB hard drive (most of the storage is done on server machines), and Office 2007, which makes it a perfect candidate for IE 8.0 rollout.

[RayChuang88]

I've been hearing the occasional rumor that Microsoft will develop an Internet Explorer 9.0, which will add HTML 5.0 support (a number of corporate customers want HTML 5.0 so they could run Google Wave). And unlike previous IE releases, IE 9.0 may switch to a completely new rendering engine that will be much faster and will work with HTML 5.0 (Microsoft Research demonstrated a test browser using a totally new HTML rendering engine about a year ago).

[hsmomx3]

Me, too! I have IE 8 on this new computer we have and it is still confusing and too busy. I prefer to use Firefox which we have. Another child of mine also downloaded Safari. I am not sure about that one.