[Renaud]

IE still represents abut 20% of Browser usage, it's still more than Firefox and a lot more than Safari.

You never know, the new direction MS is taking with regards to openness may bear its fruits. It's going to take a lot for MS to regain its past market shares, but personally, I'd prefer if it stayed around and compete with the other browsers.

I don't want Chrome to end-up being the new IE.

[Mikeb85]

At least Chrome is constantly updated, is fast, and most parts of it (certainly the important parts) are open source... If there's going to be a browser monoculture, Chrome seems like the best option at the moment...

[Piskvorrr]

"If there's going to be a browser monoculture, IE6 seems like the best option at the moment." Yay for repeating the history?

[Mikeb85]

Key difference - Chrome updates itself (on Windows and Chrome OS, Linux package managers update it, not sure about OSX).

You'd have to do something very, very wrong to wind up with a version of Chrome as outdated as IE6 had become...

[iopq]

You mean Firefox is the best option. All of it is open source.

[Mikeb85]

Except it has a slow JavaScript engine, crashes on certain pages, and just annoys me all around. I love open source, but I like things that work too.

[tomswartz07]

Well... so is the Chromium project.

[TheCoelacanth]

But practically no one uses Chromium; they're using Chrome, which has significant proprietary components.

[WorldWideWayne]

Where are you getting your numbers?

IE is at ~60% of desktop browsers and sites that report combined numbers for multiple device types sometimes reduce their desktop numbers.