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Microsoft IE8 Comparison Chart – “Of course Internet Explorer 8 wins this one”
I nearly lost my lunch when I saw the chart below. It’s a comparison chart between Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), Firefox and Chrome. I should note that I am an IE user – I run different things in IE and Firefox.
Microsoft took an internal comparison look at the following categories: security, privacy, ease of use, web standards, developer tools, reliability, customizability, compatibility, manageability and performance.
I am using IE7 so I can’t comment on how good or bad IE8 is but it’s a bit odd that a company would show a chart that makes their browser look amazingly better than the competition. IE8 wins or ties in every category and some of the comments seem like an agency was involved. Here are a couple of examples, “Of course Internet Explorer 8 wins this one” and “Neither Firefox nor Chrome provide guidance or enterprise tools. That’s just not nice.” Is there really not one area that Firefox or Chrome is better than IE8? (I have no idea so someone educate me plz)
My advice to Microsoft is to just sell us on why IE8 is great – don’t worry about comparisons – we will take care of those as users.
It looks like Microsoft is trying to come across as cutsie but it just didn’t work for me. Did it work for you? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.
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See in numbers how bad IE is.
IE has a very bad rendering engine. As Ryan said, it is a mess to make your site look in IE like in other modern Browsers. Web designers have to pollute their code just to make their sites look good in IE (of course, people probably don’t care, but it costs money…)
With the above chart Micro$oft tries to conceal how much they got behind Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, YouNameIt, … They are loosing the fight and would be best off integrating Gecko or whatever other rendering engine into their product. THEN they may start arguing what great features they built on top of that.
We can be glad that their plan to sabotage the efforts of the w3c with CSS Killer IE6 went up in smoke and turned to be the reason why their market share now stagnates.
To name an alternative: Take Opera 10.10, it is such a nice browser. Also you can easily share fotos and other files with your friends in seconds! That should be a good reason for those of you, who “just want to go surf the web and don’t care”!
Speaking of Web Development. How can the niftiest Development Tool help you design your website if the browser that it’s made for does not render correctly in the first place?
Using Firefox with Firebug and the Web-Developer Plugin gives you great debugging tools that help you develop your site and safe time (which is consumed when you go make another version just for IE :o)
There’s always someone banging on about Opera.
What about Opera? After years of being a “hardcore nerd” i use Opera for my general browsing. The features are so good. (Speed Dial?!)
Sure i have Firefox just incase there are some compatibility issues, but other then that Opera wins in every category as far as i’m concerned. Speed, Security, Ease of Use, and Reliability? Yes Sir. It’s great that microsoft now offer BOTH tab isolation and data recovery. Only over a year behind Opera?
I only felt the need to comment because of that outrageous chart. Normally i let people be happy with supporting the big companies offering sub-innovative products at excessive prices.
yea Andreas – they don’t care about mac :)
Where is the comparison to Safari?
With props to Chrome for running java-based web apps faster, I’ve been using IE8 for a while now and for general browsing I find it the least irritating of the big 3 (IE8 java is like 4x faster than IE7 now, which does help a lot). Firefox takes for-freaking-ever to load and still crashes more than IE + there’s more basic plug-in crap to deal with (like Windows media compatibility – hellooo?). The security of FF and IE is comparable – those tired old claims that Firefox is more secure (unless you’re using NoScript on most pages) are just plain baloney. Firefox is great for super-extensibility but the large majority of people (all but the 8% who know what a browser is!) will be more irritated by Firefox or Chrome than by IE. They just want to quickly launch their “Google Browser” and facebook and online banking and get on with it.
Having said all that, that comparison chart is hilarious. It looks like someone at MS just roughed one out as a tongue-in-cheek draft and someone published it by accident.
Oh, you don’t believe us? Next week we’ll throw at you another chart featuring Bing vs Google.
Good one, Jerry.
Google Chrome & Mozilla Firefox are the best browsers.
My favorite browser is Google Chrome.
I’m a web developer.
I test my sites using browsers like Chrome, Firefox,Opera,Safari,IE etc.
Mostly my site will work perfectly in all browsers, except IE.
IE causes wasting my whole day fixing specific IE errors.
I request Microsoft to stop IE.
And about their comparison chart : Laugh loudly and increase your life span.
Coming soon : Bing vs Google
Now Microsoft started lying too..!!
I hate IE !!
Don’t forget, only 8% of people in street testing can tell you what a browser is.
This will work just fine for them.