Users need to understand that Internet Explorer is dead and obsolete software. Disclaimer: Microsoft is making security updates for it. But, for everything else, Microsoft has said repeatedly, no updates until the release of Longhorn, which is still months or years out. Meanwhile, Internet Explorer is using years-old (dating to the late nineties in some cases, I believe) technology for the most part. There are many things the average user is unaware of, such as transparency for PNGs (don't worry about it, except to know it drastically holds back web designers, and is technology that is here today). There are workarounds, but, still, it is unnecessary extra work that only works in some cases (e.g. I wanted to use transparent PNG as a background; as far as I know, that cannot be done in IE). And there are so many other things broken in IE in it CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) support, it isn't even funny. I don't mean just outdated, though it definitely is, i mean broken.
Just to make it clear: If you are using IE, you may be missing out, except for some silly pages that insist of cutting off their own right arms to look better on IE. Even more important, IE is holding back the web. Let IE die! There are better (free!) alternatives anyone can download and use. There is no reason to be using outdated IE in any but special situations. My apologies to anyone at MS who does care, but you know it is true, too, I hope. Hopefully, MS will wake up and fix this. In the meantime, users, do the world a favor and enter the twenty-first century.
