Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Browser Version Market Share

However, this may be more of a moral victory than anything as IE7 users are still migrating to IE8 (and quickly). Fully expect IE8 to be the browser king. But, this may be one small digital footprint for the non-IE world… one giant leap for the Internet user.

Internet Explorer still remains the world’s most popular browser. But, if trends continue, maybe one day the web developer community will rejoice at either A) Internet Explorer being relegated to a small piece of the browser user pie or B) they actually become standards compliant. I’d venture to guess at which one might occur first, but after a lifetime of betting on the Wolfpack, I’ll let this one play its course.

Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Browser Market Share

Once considered perhaps the greatest current version, this faulty, quirky, and bug prone passer has become the entity that just won’t go away.

Speaking of icons who just won’t go away, this gels nicely with the fact that Microsoft will be supporting IE6 until 2014…

The engineering point of view on IE6 starts as an operating systems supplier. Dropping support for IE6 is not an option because we committed to supporting the IE included with Windows for the lifespan of the product. We keep our commitments. Many people expect what they originally got with their operating system to keep working whatever release cadence particular subsystems have.

As engineers, we want people to upgrade to the latest version. We make it as easy as possible for them to upgrade. Ultimately, the choice to upgrade belongs to the person responsible for the PC.

Anyone else notice that the ‘IE Blog’ from that link above looks like crap too… just like IE6?

The rest of us are going to have to live with Microsoft’s crap a little longer… just as the Viking nation will have to live with what was once a great quarterback, but is now just an inkling of what he once was in the face of newer, younger, faster, stronger, and more accurate talent for at least the next year, as Favre is set to sign a 2-year deal today.

Let’s compare and contrast the icons: