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"Here are a few facts: Internet Explorer 6 is all but kaput in most markets where it matters. Internet Explorer 7 is actually less\u00A0popular on a global scale than Internet Explorer 6; it has been effectively cannibalized by Internet Explorers 8 and 9. Internet Explorer 8 is a far\u00A0less capable and compliant browser than Internet Explorer 9.\r\n\r\nNow the kicker: Windows XP is going to keep Internet Explorer 8 alive until you want to screen for your father's brother. Repeatedly.\r\n\r\nHere's why: As we wrote this morning, Windows 7 has not yet managed to best Windows XP in total global market share. Both will control over 40% of the market when their lines cross. Internet Explorer 9 does not run on Windows XP. Therefore, the effective potential size of Internet Explorer 9's market share is the total Windows 7 market share plus whatever small slice Vista controls.\r\n\r\nHowever, given that XP has years and years\u00A0of viability left to it (I think we had best name it Zombie Windows), Internet Explorer 8 will live on as well, as there is no viable IE option that the OS can run. Therefore, the comically underpowered and uncompliant Internet Explorer 8 is simply not going to go away.\r\n\r\nThis is why Microsoft always touts Internet Explorer 9 market share on Windows 7, and not on the total global computer install base; in that market it controls less than 12% of the market. That compares poorly to Internet Explorer 8's more than 27%. IE8 is the worlds most popular browser. It's not very good by current standards, as it eats current standards.\r\n\r\nSure, Internet Explorer 6 is a footnote at last, but that doesn't mean that we are out of the bush yet. This IE8 hangover is here to stay.\r\n\r\nAll data via NetMarketShare."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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