In sum, Mr. Dunning has presented incredible numbers re IE, and that should open the door to discussing why so many avoid obviously competent Microsoft browsers; thank you for letting me offer my own thoughts on this enigmatic circumstance.

I’m no huge fan of IE anymore.  Anyone who, as I have, gets serious about an Android phone quickly learns to move over to Chrome (or, in my case, the Iron Portable Browser, which is a Chrome clone, but without all the privacy violations) in order to fully avail oneself of all the Android coolness.  So I’m no IE apologist…

…but, c’mon, did the author of the story-in-chief, here, fail the part of elementary school where he was supposed to have learned about categorization?  This article’s headline compares one, so-new-that-almost-no-one’s-using-it-yet version of IE against all other browsers; and completely ignores — at least at first — that when said new IE version’s market share is added to the other three IE versions in use, IE still commands way over half of the browser market.

Of course, I realize that that’s not as impressive as things, for IE, once were, back when it owned WAY more of the market than it now does.  And so, if that’s what the author, here, really had in mind, then maybe that’s what he should have written about.

FROM THE ARTICLE:  “First, this morning Net application report suggested Windows Phones are still way behind Android and Apple’s iOS and now the website’s  preliminary data from December shows the company’s proprietary browser -Internet Explorer 10 is only being used by a handful of PC users worldwide.” 

Really?  Are you KIDDIN’ me?  C’mon!  Did anyone really expect the Windows 8 phone, so soon after release, to have gotten even CLOSE to caught-up with either iOS or Android phones?  Or IE10 to have made any significant headway yet, given that the only operating system on which it’s intended to run was only released a couple months ago, and will take many months more to reach anywhere near its intended market penetration? 

You wanna’ write sometning useful?  Write, late next fall, how the Windows 8 phone’s acceptance, after however many months it will have by-then been out, compares with either or both of the iOS phones’ and/or Android phones’ acceptance after the same amount of time in their respective life cycles.

Write, in any case, about things that actually both tell us something, and which actually matter, will ya’?  In the meantime, go read a book on journalism and learn how to recognize what is and isn’t newsworthy.

Geez. [shakes head in disbelief]

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Gregg L. DesElms
Napa, California USA
gregg at greggdeselms dot com

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