Differ

In this article on Firefox3 there is this quote:

“IE is the browser of choice for more people on the Web than anything else,” Hachamovitch said. “There’s an all-around quality, whether in ease of use, reliability, the security we stand by, that makes it a better choice.”

I beg to differ here. IE is not the “browser of choice” but the “browser by default” for a massive majority of people on the web. The idea that people go to the effort of installing a different browser on a system that already has one speaks volumes. If you consider that 85% of the client requests to the web are Windows machines and you can also see that 39% of the requests are from Firefox. This means that over 1 in 5 requests to the web are made by a person who has made a choice to install a new product and move away from a tool they were given for free.