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FNB bins Internet Explorer 8 for online banking

Cape Town - In what will no doubt come as a shot at Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 browser, First National Bank announced on Tuesday that it would no longer be supporting IE8.

In an e-mail to bank customers, the bank said that support for the browser would end by September 2014.

"If you're still using this outdated browser, you'll no longer be able to access the FNB banking website or login to your banking profile. We therefore recommend that you upgrade to the most recent version," the message says in part.

Internet Explorer has been on the receiving end of poor reviews despite efforts by Microsoft to keep the software abreast of current technologies.

People have been abandoning IE, as particularly Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox gain in popularity.

According to data from StatCounter, IE is on a declining trend with a market share of 20%, versus Chrome at 45% and Firefox at 18%.

Overall though, browser should be taken in context of falling use of PCs as the primary mean that people access the internet.

Google's mobile friendly operating system Android is growing at a pace that should see it become the dominant platform in five to seven years.

Android already powers nearly 90% of smart mobile devices, and when taken together with all internet connected devices, has a 16% market share, second only to Windows, at 37%.

Updated: Article originally neglected to report that IE8 support was being discontinued.


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