As of 8:00 am Monday, IE8 — released Thursday — held 1.86% of the browser market, down from a high of 2.59% on Sunday, according to market watcher Net Applications. The most likely reason for the decline is that early adopters of IE8 are switching back to the more familiar, and –at this point — reliable Explorer 7 browser.
Can I have an “Epic Fail“?
Source: IE8 Users Downgrade To Explorer 7, InformationWeek.com
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a browser that makes a 20/100 score at the acid3-test, doesn’t like canvas and css3 in the year 2009 and is not a big improvement compared to its predecessor is automatically condemned to failure!
don’t think “every day normal user” cares about acid, css3 and all those fancy buzzwords. I think those users are downgrading, because the browser simply isn’t good. and that is something that is even worse for microsoft. after years in development and research they still can not come up with a fast, reliable and easy to use browser…