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Browser market blown apart by new Microsoft-EU ruling - are your web applications displaying perfectly to all of your audience?
Following 10 years of legal squabbling between the EU and Microsoft, Internet Explorer (IE) will no longer be bundled with Windows. The new version, Windows 7, will instead show a ballot screen offering five popular browsers, and seven additional browsers on a secondary page. Users will be forced to choose and install the program they want before they can browse the Internet. As well as coming as standard with new Windows 7, all new updates to Microsoft XP and Vista operating systems will include this ballot screen. From mid-March, estimates are that 100 million PCs will display the screen.
The immediate effect will be a redistribution of browser popularity. While IE is one of the most common browsers now, this unbundling will boost the popularity of secondary browsers – such as Firefox, Google’s Chrome, Opera and Apple’s Safari, as well as the relatively little known seven additional browsers.
How will this potentially dramatic change in browser use affect your website and web applications? All browsers treat the building blocks of the internet - HTML code – in different ways, meaning they affect both the appearance and functionality of your carefully designed websites and web applications. Do you know how they will look and perform across each of the browsers?
Web experts recommend that you test your websites and applications now, before customers blame you for their poor browsing experience.
Testronic Labs, with over ten years experience in web testing, is offering browser reassurance test packages from £375 - to learn more or order a test package, complete our enquiry form or call one of our global network of offices.
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The web app needs to work and your visual presentation needs to be consistent across all of these browsers – don’t let the appearance get muddled or the cool interactive content stop working because your user is viewing it in a browser different to your own. Screen resolution, operating systems - these can also impact the user experience and website performance in conjunction with various browsers. Testronic Labs has the matrix of equipment to test the consumer experience across all of these permutations and the industry-leading test tools to monitor performance.
Engaging expert functionality and compatibility software testing services will ensure that the consumer of your product or service gets the experience that you designed, as you imagined it, however they choose to access your content. Outsourcing to the experts saves you time and money and gives you the benefit of ten years of experience in the field – you’ll get the right package of testing for your audience and needs, at the right price.
Testronic Labs is offering browser reassurance test packages, designed to equip you for the Windows 7 boom, from £375 - our experts can help you identify the browsers that are most likely to be used by your target audience and thus select the breadth of testing that's right for your project.
Don’t be caught out by the Microsoft ruling – talk to Testronic Labs about browser compatibility testing for your web application today.
