Your article was fairly balanced, and in some ways I agree with what was said. Unfortunately, as you pointed out, IE remains the only choice for users who can't or won't change to something better. Being written by the same company as the one who makes the operating system also helps, as you can integrate the favourites into the user profile, etc, etc, but I agree with some of the comments that have been added. I too, have been forced into using Internet Explorer 8 after changing to Windows Server 2008 on my server and Vista Business on a laptop. I can't get access to even the simplest things like Google Maps, eBay, etc, etc, and while it may be or not be a problem with IE8, windows also has been made more secure, and asks you to confirm you want to do this or that. You also have to add every single site you believe to be ok into a trusted sites section of the IE8 Internet Options. The trouble is that one web page may consist of elements from 5, 10 or in some cases (like ebay) more different web addresses, and every single one has to be in the trusted sites for the page to display correctly. Now, for the most part it's not too difficult to do, but in some cases it becomes really irritating far too easily, and becomes something that you do automatically without reading what's on the screen. That is where any level of security falls apart. The problem is getting the balance right, and so far IE8 just doesn't quite feel right for me. Sorry to go on so much, but this is something I've been finding to be really annoying, and I can imagine the frustration that the average IT Support team are going through when they upgrade…

Your article was fairly balanced, and in some ways I agree with what was said. Unfortunately, as you pointed out, IE remains the only choice for users who can't or won't change to something better. Being written by the same company as the one who makes the operating system also helps, as you can integrate the favourites into the user profile, etc, etc, but I agree with some of the comments that have been added. I too, have been forced into using Internet Explorer 8 after changing to Windows Server 2008 on my server and Vista Business on a laptop. I can't get access to even the simplest things like Google Maps, eBay, etc, etc, and while it may be or not be a problem with IE8, windows also has been made more secure, and asks you to confirm you want to do this or that. You also have to add every single site you believe to be ok into a trusted sites section of the IE8 Internet Options. The trouble is that one web page may consist of elements from 5, 10 or in some cases (like ebay) more different web addresses, and every single one has to be in the trusted sites for the page to display correctly. Now, for the most part it's not too difficult to do, but in some cases it becomes really irritating far too easily, and becomes something that you do automatically without reading what's on the screen. That is where any level of security falls apart. The problem is getting the balance right, and so far IE8 just doesn't quite feel right for me. Sorry to go on so much, but this is something I've been finding to be really annoying, and I can imagine the frustration that the average IT Support team are going through when they upgrade…

IE has some issues but technically for web-designers it's the best.

I worked with other famous browsers, each one of them has a big issue that's not recoverable:

-Opera is fast but has some issues with Div tags.
-Safari is stable but needs alot of add-ons for flasj and flv and media to work like others
-chrome looks good but it's still new and needs more
-and the last Bad of all “firefox”,which has alot of issue until its v3.03 which are “issue with fonts size,issue with images that don't show and not fixed until now and Mozilla company know that well and didn't fix,,,which means “A BIG ISSUE IN FIREFOX ENGINE”

please,for the auther of this article and others who agree with him,,,,take care of what you say,,,and use a good copy of operating system before you install a browser to crtic it and find it make issues because of your bad operating system installation.

IE is the base ,all other browser until now float around it…it's not our problem that you are not able to recognize between its issue or its problems because of your bad installations………..

may switch to fire fox or chrome

I honestly don't think people are aware of other browsers, they simply use what their system comes with.