There's a remarkable graph on
Google's Zeitgeist site showing the meteoric rise of Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 use and equally catastrophic decline of all other competing browsers. In essence, Microsoft IE has become the de facto front door to the Internet.
We all know about and even use competing browsers like
Opera,
Firefox, and the newly released Netscape 7.5, but so what? They have, at best, the merest fraction of the online market. In fact, they've probably just carved up the slice of users who want to use alternative browsers. Compared with the overall size of the browser market, that isn't very big.
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