Originally Posted by
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VampDude, hey, I'm not telling you what to use -- I'm all for freedom of choice. I love the fact that people can choose to use IE if they want. However, I wish that more people would choose to use a different browser because from a technical standpoint, it's a horribly broken browser that just keeps on getting worse and is majorly impeeding the advancement of the internet. I don't know if you do any web design, but if you just spend a few minutes browsing the web about web design issues you'll quickly find that IE itself is the biggest barrier in web design advancement and internet application development. If it were a less widely used browser, web designers could just ignore it, but since it holds such a massive market share (at least 90% in most cases), web designers are forced to continue supporting it, despite the fact that it's a massive waste of time, energy, and resources (IE development can be so problematic and unpredictable that web designers have to budget anywhere between two to three times as much timeto fully support it -- as compared to the ammount of time it takes to fully support the other major browsers).
IE was the best and leader for years, but Microsoft has done very little to maintain that quality in the past seven years, and there's quite a bit of credibility to the assertion that Microsoft is intentionally retarding it's development on the grounds that dependable, fully, and properly working web applications pose a significant threat to it's own lucrative software business.
Continue to be a stringent IE supporter if that's what suits you, but there's ample evidence that it's a technically inferior browser that, by design, exposes your system to inexcusable security risks and receives very poor, intermittent support from it's own maker. You should expect regular problems.
