Most web developers hate IE because it has very poor standards support. We can get an application or web-page up and running in firefox/opera/safari/chrome/every other browser, then spend 2x more time getting it to work in Internet Explorer.

For the end-user, it has alot of other issues. It is severely bloated, takes forever to download, requires a restart on installation, and is tied into the windows update utility.

It also has alot of security bugs, which we won’t go into, but this quote sums it up

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THE US GOVERNMENT has sent out a warning out to internet users through its Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), pleading users to stop using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

Following a malware attack which targeted a known flaw in IE, like so many other attacks, the US-CERT recommended using alternative browsers thanks to their increased security.

Here are some more to read:

• What’s wrong with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8?
• CNet article about Internet Explorer 7
• Old but useful article about Coding for ‘Firefox’ and Hacking for ‘IE’
• Good article on IE 8
• Browsers compared (WiKi)