this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2026
132 points (99.3% liked)

Technology

86354 readers
3208 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
132
Microsoft Blocks Browser Choice for 1.4 Billion Windows 10/11 Users, Study Finds (research.mozilla.org)
submitted 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
36 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1264137/microsoft-blocks-browser-choice-for-1-4-billion-windows-10-11-users-page-84-study-finds

PostsLobsters

Full Report(PDF).

Note: The number in the headline is the total number of Windows 10 and Windows 11 users mentioned in page 84 notes in the report.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] XLE@piefed.social 8 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Very hard to take this comment seriously when it doesn't take into account the fact that Internet Explorer was included for free and by default on Windows

[–] adarza@piefed.ca 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

and a lot of ie's bits were loaded into memory with windows itself.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 4 points 3 hours ago

Yeah that's the key point there, IE was faster, because it was using your memory even if you didn't want to use it. So loading netscape was running 2 browsers at a time, and thus slower than using 1.

[–] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 0 points 3 hours ago

That was my experience growing up at the time.