According to the browser analytics firm Statcounter, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser has fallen below 50% of the worldwide market for the first time.
Microsoft IE fell to 49.87% in September followed by Firefox with 31.5%.
“Google’s Chrome continues to increase market share at an impressive rate and has more than tripled from 3.69% in September 2009 to 11.54% in September this year.”
“This is certainly a milestone in the Internet browser wars,” commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter. “Just two years ago IE dominated the worldwide market with 67%.”
He added that Microsoft’s agreement with European Commission competition authorities to offer EU users a choice and menu of browsers from March may have tipped IE below 50% globally.
In Europe, IE market share has fallen to 40.26% in September this year from 46.44% in September last year. In North America IE is still above 50% at 52.3% followed by Firefox at 27.21% and Chrome at 9.87%.
and the IE9 market share will be even worse since not compatible with XP that’s the 55% of the Windows market
I hate IE———–“do you want to send this error to who knows where”
IE aka Idiot Explorer
Bring Netscape back
they failed to mention this is only data from sites that use statcounter- how much of the web is that? and ua can be changed by the user, so statcounter’s server logs are not 100% reliable on that point.
“only data from sites that use statcounter”
but statcounter is very popular (also all my sites use this service)
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in 2012-2013 when ChromeOS will reach 80% of the (new machines) PC market, over 70% of people will use Chrome
SOMETHING UNUSUAL AT SNAPNAMES? SAY IT AINT SO!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703467304575383530439838568.html
Scoreboard
Ads vs Privacy
Ads 1, Privacy 0
MSFT paid 6BB for an online ad company. You will be tracked.
Don’t think that Mozilla and Chrome don’t “phone home” (or phone the BBC, hi Mozilla) with some commercially useful data as well. Mozilla uses the label “non-profit” to give users some sort of warm fuzzies in their marketing campaign (against IE). However, they have many millions in revenue and they have had to form a for-profit arm. Their employees get paid as well as many developers working for openly for-profit companies. They are certainly in tight with the online ad market. Don’t be fooled.
Not sure about Opera.
The truly free, non-profit, open source, made by volunteers i.e. students, no advertising browsers are not widely known. But they do exist.