A Bad Day At The BlogOn2004 Conference: The Microsoft presentation rolled along smoothly till he said,”Show of hands…How many of you use Internet Explorer?”

Witnesses report fewer than 20% in the audience responded in the positive.

Why? Detractors site security and features as the reason they switched to Mozilla or Opera. While IE’s recent security troubles have resulted in only a 1% drop in general users, the geek-exodus may be a wakeup call: Fix it, or… better yet… unbundle it.

Securing email would be a whole lot easier.

See for yourself at DivaBlog.