Wired News: Cool Ways to Give IE the Boot

Wired News: Cool Ways to Give IE the Boot: "The bad news just keeps coming from Microsoft -- this week alone the company released a patch for seven new security vulnerabilities, three of them affecting the company's Internet Explorer browser and described as "critical" flaws by Microsoft. [...] No program coded by humans will ever be 100 percent secure, but we can make malicious hackers' lives more difficult by using a variety of browsers. Having 94.73 percent of all Web surfers using one application provides too big of a target, and the problem is compounded by Microsoft's unfortunate insistence on tying Explorer so tightly to the Windows operating system."

I've already given IE the boot, I browse now with Firefox and am very happy with it. This Wired article gives a couple of other contenders if you want to move away from IE.