Gary Marshall: Is This The End Of An Era For Internet Explorer?

Gary Marshall: Is this the end of an era of Internet Explorer?

On the face of it, Internet Explorer does not have much in common with the Sugababes: IE is not beautiful, not singing and it is not likely to wear an outfit with primary colors in PVC dominatrix to perform at gay.

However, they are not as different as you might think.

I mean, seriously. Both were great in 2003, and both have seen their popularity slipping dramatically since. In 2003, sold the hole in the head of 145,000 copies and the album went platinum three doubles, selling 855,000 copies, and in the meantime, Internet Explorer dominates the charts with a market share of 95% amazing .

Now, however, Sugababes battle to sell books at all - their latest album, Sweet 7, sold sweet FA - and market share of IE is in sharp decline.

In October, global market share of IE below 50% for the first time.

As the Sugababes, IE has not yet given up the ghost - it still controls 52.63% of the desktop browsing, even if the shares fall too low - as the Sugababes, but it is clear that the younger competitors are in place in the rankings.

In the case of the Sugababes is a shame, but if IE is the good news - for us all.

Catfights and spotlights

In 2003, he seemed invincible. Websites you said you use IE or shit, and the attitude of the Microsoft browser war seemed "We won! Time to sleep!" IE6 and two years, and Microsoft does not seem too interested in the update. In fact, the next version of IE will not be sent until 2006.

If IE6 was perfect, it was not a problem. But it was not - and the technology, if something is not perfect, sooner or later, someone comes with a better idea. In this case, the best idea was Firefox. Although the IE development stalled, Mozilla stored in Red Bull and released after browser browser after browser.

Strategy Firefox reminds me of Jack Handey quote: "What he got was a piece brilliant first strategy, it struck me then kicked me then hit me again ...."

Firefox gave him a good drilling IE for years, and since then others have joined in too - including chromium, which is currently done with Firefox Firefox it does in IE.

It is easy to forget how volatile the technology industry can be. Many of the things I used to depend - CompuServe, AltaVista, HotBot, RealPlayer - are long gone, or reduced to shadows of themselves.

Many things depend on today - Google, iPhone broadband, mobile and cloud computing - have arrived relatively recently. In 2003, Ireland was as if the site rule forever, now it's just another browser.

If you are a tech is pleased now for world domination, or an observer wondering how bad the site or service is first of all jumping ship, invoice IE5 will be a thing: Tech-position, as happened in the rankings, or membership of the Sugababes is strictly temporary.