Microsoft OR NOT Microsoft? Multi Billionaire Bill Gates founded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975. He is one of the most despised people in the world as a consequence of his success. Microsoft has a strangle hold over the PC market due to the use of Microsoft products on most new computers.
That stranglehold, however, is slowly changing...

Friday 29 January 2010

Web Browsers

Internet Explorer recently introduced IE8, and with it a plethora of problems, that manifested itself as a slow and unstable program.

Many people tried an alternative and quickly switched from IE8, to one of the 40-plus freely available browsers. Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Google Chrome being the most common, all of which seem to load faster and suffer far less crashes than IE8.

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. A Net Applications survey put Firefox at 25% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of November 2009, making it the second most popular browser in terms of current use worldwide after Microsoft's Internet Explorer,[5] and the most used browser independent of any one operating system. Other sources put Firefox's usage share at between 21% and 32% and generally trending upward. As of December 2009, Firefox 3.5 was the most used browser in the world (including browser versions), according to StatCounter. Due to the January 2010, well-publicized vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, the German and French, and Australian governments have publicly issued warnings to Internet Explorer users to use alternative browsers at least until a fix for the security hole is made. The first browser they recommended was Mozilla Firefox, followed by Google Chrome.

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine and application framework. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on 2 September 2008, and the public stable release was on 11 December 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or "chrome", of web browsers. As of December 2009, Chrome was the third most widely used browser, with 4.63% of worldwide usage share of web browsers according to Net Applications.


Opera is a web browser and Internet suite developed by the Opera Software company. The browser handles common Internet-related tasks such as displaying web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, chatting on IRC clients, downloading files via BitTorrent, and reading Web feeds. Opera is offered free of charge for personal computers and mobile phones. Features of Opera include tabbed browsing, page zooming, mouse gestures, and an integrated download manager. Its security features include built-in phishing and malware protection, strong encryption when browsing secure Web sites, and the ability to easily delete private data such as HTTP cookies.

Safari is a web browser developed by Apple. First released as a public beta on January 7, 2003 on the company's Mac OS X operating system, it became Apple's default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther." Safari is also the native browser for the iPhone OS. A version of Safari for the Microsoft Windows operating system, first released on June 11, 2007, supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. The current stable release of the browser is 4.0.4 for both Mac OS X and Windows.

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