Internet Explorer Drops Below 50% Market Share

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[citation][nom]ProDigit80[/nom]Just another show how the user wants something that works fast, is simple, safe, and does the job!All these advanced browsers with extra feats and gadgets, that are slow as hell, people don't want!People start using their brains, just like cars, people rather want a normal car that works well, than buying a ferrari with clutch, gearbox, or engine problems.[/citation]

You said 2 dumb things. IE is fast??? and Ferrari`s break??? not smart you is. "All these other fancy" browers actually work really well and are generally faster.
 
Not surpricing at all, when a company dont have any real competition and enjoy market domination it becomes lax and dont waste any effort to upgrade their market leader product properly. Thats when the competition begin to get momentum and usualy overtaking it. MS seem to have realised it and are working hard on developing IE9, lets see if its too late!
 
At home, things are looking slightly better for Internet Explorer. The browser still accounts for 52.3 percent. Firefox comes in second with 27.21 percent while Chrome brings up the rear with 9.87 percent.

That leaves what marketshares for Opera and the rest of the wanabebrowsers? Opera isnt bad at all, amazed it has such low marketshare
 
People dont buy into this, statistics are easy to manipulate, im sure IE is doing just as well as ever but the reason it appears to be losing popularity is because its shown as a %, every time Sony sell a PS3 they ship a copy of Playstation Web Browser, everytime RIM sell a phone they ship a copy of Blackberry Web Browser, the same with the iPhone, and many other gadgets.

Thats why IE's % is going down because the market is being flooded with devices with different browsers, on computers its most likely taken a hit but will still be on waaaay more than 50% of systems
 
[citation][nom]jamesedgeuk2000[/nom]People dont buy into this, statistics are easy to manipulate, im sure IE is doing just as well as ever but the reason it appears to be losing popularity is because its shown as a %, every time Sony sell a PS3 they ship a copy of Playstation Web Browser, everytime RIM sell a phone they ship a copy of Blackberry Web Browser, the same with the iPhone, and many other gadgets.Thats why IE's % is going down because the market is being flooded with devices with different browsers, on computers its most likely taken a hit but will still be on waaaay more than 50% of systems[/citation]

Those other browsers are obviously not included in these results, or if they are, they account for less than 0.75%.
 
[citation][nom]mouettus[/nom]you really want the latest technology on a nearly 10 years old OS?!make up your mind![/citation]


Microsoft were pushing XP on Netbooks until a few months ago, why do you think that they should now be able to screw over the people who parted with their hard earned cash by refusing to support their OS? If I had bought a XP Netbook I would be looking to take action against MS around now.
 
[citation][nom]randomizer[/nom]Those other browsers are obviously not included in these results, or if they are, they account for less than 0.75%.[/citation]

The are nearly 40 million PS3's out there all running a browser based on Mozilla that identifies itself as Firefox (Mozilla 5.0) to websites, the statcounter will have logged PS3 users as Firefox, also Blackberry have their own browser but users can set it to identify itself as IE/Mozilla in order to use sites that reject other browsers, Im not sure offhand but I would guess iPhones identify themselves as Safari but can be told to do otherwise like the BB can.

In short IE's popularity isn't going down that much its just everything else is going up in popularity so the % based figures look skewed.
 
Considering the fact that IE in three versions still accounts for 50% plus is a credit to Microsoft. Say what you will about IE. For a lot of people its still is a big player. I think the point is missed that not everyone wants a browser like Firefox with all the add ons. If you take away the extensions a browser is just a browser. You can claim all you want in milli seconds advantages in page loading. But for the average computer user they could care less as long as it loads a page correctly. So as long as IE can do that. Most users will not care about the rest.
 
Not surprised Opera is up -- the current version is reliable. Just wish MS had been forced to remove IE from Windows a long time ago -- it pains me to have that waste of space on my machine.
 
All it took for industry pundits in the late 90s to announce that Netscape was dead was its market share dropping below 50%... so where are the cries that IE is dead? Or have we perhaps learned something over the years, that 49% market share is still huge.
 
The silver lining in the whole "integrate IE into the OS" crap- Windows Explorer can't be run as another user in XP, but Internet Explorer can.

We have a lot of scripts that have to run at startup for security purposes, plus a fair amount of old hardware that can't be upgraded for a while, so logging someone off to make changes with admin rights is a huge pain. Being able to remove a program, add a printer, or make other simple changes that need admin rights without logging the user off is quite handy.

That said, I shouldn't have to use a workaround- I assume Win7 fixes this.
 
[citation][nom]dEAne[/nom]They never solve the browser problems only create lots of them.[/citation]
It's called competition. How else do you think your "browser problem" will be solved? Do you think ie9 would have all the improvements it has if it weren't for the influence of chrome and firefox?
Who's "they" anyway? These browsers are all created by different companies...
 
Anyone else notice that IE9 "in Private" browsing is not as private as IE8?

It seems to pull history from ads.

I may have saved a few marriages today.
 
no surprise considering that IE is the worst browser out there and the next update for it (ie9) is only for Vista/7/8 windows OSes. Which means that it will loose even more of a market share because XP still the #1 Windows browser.
 
Time to get real, the technical and speed differences between the various browsers are so minor as to only be personal preference rather than measurable factors - it's like those people who claim they can see the differance between a 1ms and a 2ms response time on a monitor, stop talking bull$hit.

The non-technical people who use Firefox or Chrome have either selected it from the "choice screen" as it was the randomly appointed first choice or have had a fanboi geek who thinks they are fighting "the man" recommend it to them. The rest are just fanbois.

I have seen people who use one of the "sleek and uncluttered" alternates and still managed after 2 weeks of using it to have 30% of their screen covered in toolbars for everything from Google search, Bing Search, Yahoo search, Anti Virus Toolbars, you name it.

IE just works, so do all the others, get over it.
 
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