IE9 reaches 22%, Chrome overtakes Firefox on win7

IE is the default, there is just the browser choice page thingy, which I ignored.

 

OK, you'd think MS would ship Windows with IE9 now wouldn't you?

 

Not really... IE9 hasn't been out all that long, and it takes time to bring things current.

 

Possibly. IE9 is far superior to IE8 though, which in my opinion was not much better than IE7, especially performance-wise.

 

Yes but I believe IE9 was merely a "step" (in the right direction) towards IE10. It wasn't going to change overnight (neither will its bad reputation). It's quite possible the UI may change again in IE10, hopefully a bit more "metro-y", or maybe placing tabs in the "title" bar instead of just blank space, seeing as the new windows explorer is taking advantage of that space.

 

Yes, I think that some work could be done on the UI. That 'blank space' is a bit aesthetically redundant. With WOT installed I find that I can't realistically hide the menu bar. I'm not so sure about 'metro-y' for a desktop though LOL.

 

IE9's been out for months. I have no clue why it isn't shipping.

 

The OEMs buy their volume licenses and create their install images many months before units that are being built today are shipped and sold. Not just the OS but all the hardware drivers are old, bios is old etc. Part of the reason why oem builds are comparatively cheaper than self-builds. They can bundle all their software for next to nothing (retail license cost sometimes 1000% more than OEM volume license for instance for MS Office)

 

I bet if windows came with Chrome as the default browser and general sales to public would probably be average users,how many of them would go download a third party browser.I doubt many would.Chrome would probably be leading the poll followed by whatever.

 

Like I thought, very good news. Can you provide numbers?

 

That basically varifies what I said in my post if it's true.

 

Hmmm...