Facebook and Social Startups Meme.

The Browser wars have only just begun, I mean I won’t call them as old and ancient as the Microsoft Internet Explorer. The browser that has seen its highs and lows throughout its history has turned fifteen, making it the eldest in the Browser community. I am not sure how many of you still use the Internet Explorer, I for one haven’t used it for the last one year [regularly].

I guess the major issue with IE has been the security flaws and the long stretch of the IE6 that, if I am not wrong would have never got an update if sites and people hadn’t shown their disgust over it. However there has been a comeback of sort, with the latest releases of the Internet Explorer steadily gaining market share in the couple of months [via Net Applications], where as the likes of Firefox, Google Chrome have all lost shares.

While the IE still remains the dominant browser in the market, it is highly likely that it will continue to face stiffer challenge from the more powerful, high speed, extensions loaded browsers in competition. I guess the IE8 has done fairly better at improving the image of the Microsoft’s browser in general and much is expected from the Internet Explorer 9, which, according to Microsoft will embrace more openness, have support for extensions and will be hardware accelerated. Lets hope all turns out well and i solidifies its position as the browser leader.