Awooga: August Patch Tuesday incoming – with two remote-code exec bugs in IE, Windows Microsoft has published advance notification for what it says will be a total of nine security update bulletins for its products – two of which are rated critical. The company said that the latest patch batch, set to arrive on August 12, will bundle critical Internet Explorer and Windows fixes with seven other tweaks for …
They do if they have a tablet. There isn't much choice.
Firefox abandoned a touch friendly version of Firefox and Chrome's "Modern" interface mimics ChromeOS and isn't very touch friendly. They are also much slower on low powered machines - I ran Sunspider on my Atom tablet, Firefox was 60% slower than IE! :-O
If it weren't for NoScript, I'd have gone over to 100% IE on my tablet.
"People still use IE?"
Sure - about 58% of PC users do.
http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpcustomb=0&qprid=1
IE was the fastest browser at time of release for at least last 4 major releases, has had far fewer vulnerabilities than most other mainstream browsers, and it's not spyware by design...
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