That day is here in both the US and Europe. It's not illegal but for Microsoft to avoid further anti-trust penalties, they've made it uninstallable and, soon, will have a ballot box where you choose the browser you wish to install. It already has. It's lost about 35% market share. That will be automated when the new ballot box comes out shortly.
Looking at the charts made me think of netscape navigator for some messed up reason... I can't believe IE is actually losing it's grip on the browser market... What crazy times we live in.
Are all these browsers free to install. I keep hearing about how bad IE is and how FireFox is way better, but in my opinion Internet Explorer works fine, but I never tested out any other browser..
Yes. The only reason for that is the hard work of web developers who may spend up to 50% of their time tearing their hair out getting perfectly good code that works everywhere else to work in IE. What you see is the result of that extra, hard work. What you won't see in IE are the latest technologies and techniques available in the more modern browsers. Some sites implement them and you can't see them in IE but some sites won't implement for any browser for the same reason. So, because of the extra work involved and IE holding back web technology, those are the two big reasons any web developer worth their salt will tell you to dump IE for anything else.