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Chrome beats IE market share for one day

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Re: Chrome beats IE market share for one day

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Chrome beats IE market share. It showed that over the weekend Chrome is the most used browser, while on a weekday, people go back to work and use IE. This has two implications: 1) Companies are still locked into some solutions like OWA and sharepoint because of which users still use IE at work. 2) Users have started distinguishing between browsers and at home they prefer using Chrome. For companies with most of their…

> It showed that over the weekend Chrome is the most used browser, while on a weekday, people go back to work and use IE. This has two implications: 1) Companies are still locked into some solutions like OWA and sharepoint because of which users still use IE at work. 2) Users have started distinguishing between browsers and at home they prefer using Chrome. I think you're overlooking a third possibility: a large perc…

good point. Mostly administrative staff.

I think of interest to web startups would be the aspect of which browser is being used by those people who are willing to buy products based on the internet and those do not tend to be people who use IE. I am excluding buying things like ebay, amazon etc.

If you consider buying internet based things, like basecamp for e.g., you could see that this population would mostly use chrome, firefox or safari. This is purely my intuition, mainly because if people care about using an internet based product, they would want the product looks good, works well and is fast on their browsers and they will thus be using one of the better browsers.

Re: Chrome beats IE market share for one day

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Chrome beats IE market share. It showed that over the weekend Chrome is the most used browser, while on a weekday, people go back to work and use IE. This has two implications: 1) Companies are still locked into some solutions like OWA and sharepoint because of which users still use IE at work. 2) Users have started distinguishing between browsers and at home they prefer using Chrome. For companies with most of their…

SharePoint is cross-browser, at least as of SharePoint 2010. I don't believe any functions require IE. Disclaimer: I work for an MS partner, while I don't admin SharePoint our company does plenty of SharePoint work and our clients are happy.

Surely you jest!

Re: Chrome beats IE market share for one day

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

SharePoint is cross-browser, at least as of SharePoint 2010. I don't believe any functions require IE. Disclaimer: I work for an MS partner, while I don't admin SharePoint our company does plenty of SharePoint work and our clients are happy.

You need IE for some of its feature such as Datasheet View, multiple file upload, etc. They don't show up in Chrome. But that doesn't mean you can use Chrome. Just less productive.

Thanks for the clarification - the SP platform is still perfectly usable in non-IE browsers, although as you say a few nice things aren't available.
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