I think it would take IE not working for something a lot of people want to do. The problem with IE is that it works for end users. devs build websites that work on IE so most everyday people never even notice or care that IE is such a pain. I remember when facebook dropped IE6 support. That was a nice day, pretty soon IE6 support was more or less dead (at least in user-land, corporant behemoths are another story...). Basically, big players would just have to quit IE support entirely and force ms to do what opera does and build a decent browser.
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I think it would take IE not working for something a lot of people want to do. The problem with IE is that it works for end users. devs build websites that work on IE so most everyday people never even notice or care that IE is such a pain. I remember when facebook dropped IE6 support. That was a nice day, pretty soon IE6 support was more or less dead (at least in user-land, corporant behemoths are another story...). Basically, big players would just have to quit IE support entirely and force ms to do what opera does and build a decent browser.