There’s an amusing entry over at DivaBlog where Danese Cooper relates a story about a wakeup call for Microsoft when they asked an audience how many of them used Internet Explorer.
Anyway, the presenter was doing his pitch in a polished way and at one point he said he wanted to show us a “really cool” feature and he looked up into the audience and said “Show of hands...How many of you use Internet Explorer?”. Probably 99 times out of 100 when he asks that question all the hands go up, right? Well first there was a pause and then a giggle and then a whoop of laughter as the audience looked around and realized that NO ONE had raised a hand. The presenter was thrown off his mark, but he recovered and said, “Wow! Okay how many of you wish we’d fix IE so you could use it?”
Still no hands....
Ouch, that had to be awkward. Danese goes on to say that an informal poll showed that even the Windows users present had switched to Firefox and are quite happy with it.
Posted on 07/26/2004 at 09:33 AM 
Myself I have been using firefox over IE for a couple of months. I couldn’t be happier even more so now I have a spell check for firefox. The biggest plus is no more spyware on my computer. Thank you! freakin IE.