Internet Explorer: Time to go open source?

Unfortunately Internet Explorer still continues to be the worst nightmare when experienced users for any reason had to deal with/use regular users' internet browsing. Being bundled to undeniably the largest spread operating system Windows OS, regular users don't tend to look for any other web browser since they do not feel the lack of user friendly usage or speed with the couple of minutes they spend online surfing the net, or hours spent on only on a couple of popular websites.

Therefore worst nightmare for an experienced user starts when there is no other web browser icon visible on the computer when they are asked to fix something or help with some content on a website. Despite the fact that it may only be a loss of total 20 seconds, it still is like feeling bad for your friend when they still keep their two word reminders in a huge Word document instead of a .txt.


Blue :Internet Explorer (68.15%)

Orange :Mozilla Firefox (21.34%)

Gray :Safari (7.93%)

Yellow :Google Chrome (1.04%)

Red : Opera (0.71%)

Green :Netscape (0.57%)

Aqua :Other (0.24%)


Source:Wikipedia

United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and 20 U.S. states have opened a lawsuit against Microsoft on May 18, 1998, for using it's monopoly power to force users to use it's own browser and win the browser wars since it was obvious to people then, browsers were going to be extremely important with the following years to come.

However despite more than a decade being passed after browser wars, Microsoft failed to create a better surfing experience for Internet Explorer users, being slower comparing to it's competitors and having a non user-friendly interface with a lot of irrelevant popups, information and crashes for it's users' to deal with.