NewsForge: Why Does Anyone Use Internet Explorer?

"Recently, our church made the switch to a new Web hosting service that offered us a database-driven site that we can keep updated through a Web interface. Strangely enough, the Web interface operates only under Internet Explorer, although it appears to be written in PHP. I've tried using the interface with both Firefox and Konqueror. It sort of works, but I need it to really work, so I'm stuck with IE. (Maybe that's why I'm the church's unofficial Web master.) After working with the world's most popular Web browser, I wonder why so many people put up with it.

"Today was the first time that I put any serious effort into working on the new site, so it was also the first time in a long while that I had any face time with Internet Explorer version 6, the most current release..."

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