“Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has lost market share in major European markets, such as France, Britain and Italy, after the U.S. software firm started to make it easier for European consumers to use competing browsers,” Tarmo Virki reports for Reuters.
“Microsoft’s pledge to allow easier access to rival browsers in Windows by the middle of May, ended a long antitrust dispute with the European Union,” Virki reports. “The company has started to send a choice screen, where consumers can easily click on rival browsers, to almost 200 million old and new computers.”
Virki reports, “According to web statistics firm Statcounter, Internet Explorer’s share of all Web surfing has in March dropped in France by 2.5 percentage points from February, in Britain by 1 percentage point and in Italy by 1.3 points.”
“At first sight, Microsoft’s browser Choice Screen shows its own Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Apple Inc’s Safari and Google Inc’s Chrome,” Virki reports. “It is not immediately obvious remaining choices are available by scrolling to the right of the Web page.”
MacDailyNews Take: Not immediately obvious to WIndow sufferers, that is. Of course, until this screen appeared, they thought the Internet was what you got when you clicked the blue “e.”
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I don’t get the scrolling at all, I mean how hard would it be to stack the choices? Oh wait, this is Microsoft we’re talking about here, the only thing they know about good design they stole from Apple 25 years ago.
@Tommy Boy
… and FORGOT 24 years ago.
i think it is great, and I think Apple should offer the same type of choice, to prevent future problems
How retarded. A much bigger issue than browser dominance is buying a phone and after the contract not being able to have it work on any carrier.
I have four browsers in my Mac partition and five in my M$ partition. I still use Safari the most.
As iPads replace the cheep Netbooks this will accelerate!
How else could it be? M$’s pollution has been there for long enough!
I have Safari & Firefox in my dock. Safari is used for everything except Wells Fargo. Safari won’t always let me into WF. Firefox ALWAYS does. Don’t ask me! Apple can’t explain. Maybe some of you smart people can.
J_T, “As iPads replace the cheep Netbooks this will accelerate!”
That’s a little chicken!
Hey Ron
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i’m pretty smart
give me your user name and password, and I’ll see if I can get it to work
I am still amazed in this day and age when I talk to some PC users and they have no idea what a browser is (I tell them it is that Internet explorer thingy they use) and that there are ‘internet thingys that exist OTHER than IE.
Scary but when you think of it, the iPad will be a godsend to them.
Those 7 other browsers to the right, I’ve never heard of.
@TommyB, to prevent bias, the 5 main browsers are supposedly randomly ordered.
@ron, you should activate the Developer Menu and then switch user agents, that might allow you to use Safari with Wells Fargo.
Life is simple and easy to choose, just one OS, browser and software for the rest of us. Get a Mac and never go back. It’s so easy, fun and simple.
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Either shoddy web design or intentionally deceptive web design. Either way, it’s the Mafia$oft way.
ron,
I’ve heard the exact same thing from other people (although, I don’t use Wells Fargo myself)!
I use ONLY Safari, and it has never had any problem with the Wells Fargo web site (the User Agent is set to Default).
Originally, as I recall, Safari was to be listed first on the ballot. However, I believe Opera objected so the display was randomised.
Google Chrome is my favourite
Wells Fargo works fine with the Safari default user agent, and has since the third day of the first Safari, when I personally worked with the head of the web team at Wells to make sure it would. (It helps to know the right people!)
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