More Flaws Discovered in Internet Explorer Could Pose Threat

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It doesn't seem like the the furor over China's recent cyber attacks on Google will ever die down. Last week, Microsoft patched up the vulnerabilities in its Web browser, Internet Explorer, that allowed the attacks. According to a report from Reuters, a Boston-based security research firm discovered yet more flaws that could leave Internet Explorer users open to similar malicious attacks.

The Battle of the Browsers – The History and the Future of Internet Browsers

by: Nicholas C Smith

With Internet Explorer 8 now available, can Microsoft hope to retain market dominance over fierce open source rivals such as Mozilla's Firefox or the feature packed Opera web browser. Can history give us a clue to what the future of web browsers/browsing might hold? How did Netscape Navigator go from having a dominant 89.36% market share of all web browsers in 1996 and yet only 3.76% by mid 1999?

Let us take a journey that will begin long before even the intellectual conception of Internet Explorer, that will glance at its long defeated rivals, examine the current browsers available and will end with a prediction of what the future of browsing will offer us – and which browser(s) will still be around to offer it.

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