The many open-sourced browsers that are wowing users all over the globe are indeed causing shivers down the spine of the much used Internet Explorer from Microsoft. the software giant has suffered blow after blow when it was deemed to be bullying users to use their IE which just happened to be bundled with their Windows OS presenting itself as the browser of choice. Ordinary users would rarely fiddle with such nuances as getting other browsers such as the previous Netscape browser which won a suit when it claimed it was being forced out by the software giant. Soon after, a growing movement to take the monopoly away from Microsoft gave way to more browsers with the likes of FireFox, Chrome and Safari taking over the IE’s domination. they were faster due in fact to lower overhead and with better support than the normal help desk support we got from Microsoft.
The dominance of IE over the internet is indeed numbered for more and mroe stable versions of the many browsers sow in use are making headway in terms of better and safer functionality that was once a sole territory of the commercial software giant. The many flaws of the IE browser and the Windows platform itself being made known by the many security bulletins that are now released to allow communities who develop these browsers (all this information used to be opaque with you getting updates without much information on what was wrong) to make their own adjustments to improve security. There are still some IE-specific sites (commercial applications which are developed on the Microsoft infrastructure) on the net but they would surely be made available to more transparent browsers.