Sorry, chex, just saw this after completing the above post.

It was a new thread.

Here was the post:

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Internet Explorer's Market Share Drops Slightly

While use of the just-released IE7 browser is climbing, Internet Explorer's overall share slipped from 82.1% in September to 81.3% in October.

http://www.informationweek.com/inte...cleID=193502124

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I would contend that having more than 4 out of 5 users utilizing Internet Explorer to access the web 'aint' all that bad, is it?

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New zero day attack on Internet Explorer

A new zero day vulnerability that is currently being exploited in the wild has been discovered in Microsoft software used to build XML applications. Users who visit malicious websites that exploit the vulnerability may find that code is executed on their machines using the same level of privileges that they have.

The vulnerability in the XMLHTTP 4.0 ActiveX Control, part of Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0, can be exploited on both IE6 and IE7 and Microsoft has acknowledged that attacks are occurring...

http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/6929/53/

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So, the security debate will surely rage on! LOL!


It's no secret that I prefer IE7 as noted in the earlier discussion here:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/show...1&highlight=ie7

Please fell free to add this comment to that earlier, but now closed thread, if the moderators prefer. Naturally, I could not add it to the locked thread!

Mark

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