{"id":520,"date":"2010-03-22T14:54:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saoudrana.com\/?p=520"},"modified":"2010-03-22T14:54:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:54:37","slug":"early-reports-show-ie-not-faring-well-in-the-post-ballot-screen-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/early-reports-show-ie-not-faring-well-in-the-post-ballot-screen-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Early reports show IE not faring well in the post-ballot screen days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/saoudrana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ie-ballot-20100321-600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-521\" title=\"ie-ballot-20100321-600\" src=\"http:\/\/saoudrana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ie-ballot-20100321-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ie-ballot-20100321-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ie-ballot-20100321-600-300x137.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most PC users hit the web using Internet Explorer by default, simply because that&#8217;s what came along with Windows. Now, after antitrust investigations, European users get a choice of browser to install via ballot screen, and initial reports are not good for &#8216;ol IE. According to Statcounter, IE use in France has dropped 2.5 percent since last month&#8217;s implementation of the ballot, 1.3 percent in Italy, and 1 percent in Britain. It&#8217;s still early days, and it&#8217;ll take more than this to chip away from IE&#8217;s 62 percent lead in the browser war, but it&#8217;s certainly not a good trend for Microsoft. With that in mind, we&#8217;re going to have to ask you to place your bets now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.reuters.com\/article\/technologyNews\/idCATRE62L1KE20100322\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most PC users hit the web using Internet Explorer by default, simply because that&#8217;s what came along with Windows. Now, after antitrust investigations, European users get a choice of browser to install via ballot screen, and initial reports are not good for &#8216;ol IE. According to Statcounter, IE use in France has dropped 2.5 percent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410,87,292],"tags":[496,497,498,499,500,501,502,503,504,505,506,507,508,509],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applications","category-computer","category-internet","tag-ballot-screen","tag-ballotscreen","tag-browser-ballot","tag-browser-war","tag-browser-wars","tag-browserballot","tag-browserwar","tag-browserwars","tag-ie","tag-internet-explorer-7","tag-internetexplorer7","tag-microsoft-internet-explorer","tag-microsoftgamestudios","tag-microsoftinternetexplorer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}