11 September 2008

Browser wars - Microsoft look out!

Back from a month of holidays and catching up... And a new browser appears on the market. I gave up using Microsoft IE years ago, it's just so slow and clunky and others have shown themselves to be miles more innovative and responsive to user demands.

And then there's Google Chrome. I downloaded it and installed it easily. For the average web user, it's probably fine, but I am a fairly demanding user and there are a number of things which do not work and I have had to file bug reports. Believe it or not, if you open a GoogleDocs spreadsheet in Chrome, you cannot use right-click. For me that's a big issue. Conclusion - still a bit buggy, but obviously a massive effort and we should never under-estimate Google. All power to your elbows guys at lining up fairly and squarely against Microsoft and good luck in the ensuing war. Firefox has shown that IE has a convertible user base - IE now only accounts for 75% of the market and it used to be the high 90s.