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Dutch Survey Shows IE Web Share Below 90%

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the women-and-children-first-mind-your-step dept.

happycorp writes "We've seen a few too many Firefox articles by now, but it is gaining a real presence in the market: Onestat reports that IE's share is down to 88.9% marketshare, with the combined Mozilla browsers above 7%. While we saw this trend much earlier in particular communities such as w3schools this is the first time IE has dropped below 90% in a general survey. Also interesting, the w3schools page shows a steady parallel increase in both Linux and Mac OS global marketshare over the last 18 months."

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  1. 0% IE, 100% Firefox by danormsby · · Score: 4, Funny
    0% IE, 100% Firefox on my desktop.

    58% of statistics are made up.

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    1. Re:0% IE, 100% Firefox by essreenim · · Score: 0, Funny

      Ha, I use IE.
      The best part is when I launch it and watch as my hard disk is formatted - magic!
      Lets see your precious Firefox do that!!

    2. Re:0% IE, 100% Firefox by strider44 · · Score: 1, Funny

      *sigh* I'm starting to miss all of the extra features included with IE. Does anyone know if it can be run on Wine?

    3. Re:0% IE, 100% Firefox by Munra · · Score: 1, Funny

      Wow - that's 14% down on last year.

      Manta

    4. Re:0% IE, 100% Firefox by rjshields · · Score: 2, Funny

      The best part is when I launch it and watch as my hard disk is formatted - magic!

      That's nothing - my IE has a cool purple monkey and pops up helpful special offers periodically.

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  2. What's the critical marketshare threshold... by yahyamf · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...required for /. to work properly in firefox?

  3. That's not all. by The-Bus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Google Zeitgeist shows Firefox the #10 search in October in Germany.

    Sadly, using that above piece of evidence, Firefox is still not as popular a web browser as (apparently) Christina Aguilera.

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  4. In other news.... by Viceice · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft recommends Firefox

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  5. I'm not helping this time.. by datGSguy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Last time I sponsored a cool browser, AOL slurped it up. I'm not doin that to the poor lil FireFox.

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  6. Even Microsoft are using Firefox! by ThreeDayMonk · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...according to this article:

    The company recently provided the press with a screenshot of MSN Search displayed on the open source browser...

    The photo credit says "(AP Photo/HO/Microsoft)", which menas it was distributed to AP by Microsoft.

    MS PR wigs are denying it, naturally...

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  7. What we need is to remember... by RealProgrammer · · Score: 5, Funny

    IE users have no desire for tabs.

    There will be patent issues with Linux.

    Microsoft is about innovation.

    There will be patent issues with Mozilla.

    Microsoft is about innovation.

    There will be patent ...

    That's it, you're getting sleepy, very sleepy...

    Quick somebody at Mozilla.org patent tabbed browsing! I know tabs were in Hypercard in 1940 or so, but they didn't use it for browsing the web and USPTO doesn't look at the real world, just what's been patented.

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  8. Web browsers? by bcmm · · Score: 4, Funny
    I don't understand all this hype about web browsers. They take too much of my system resources away from compiling the latest kernel release (I use Gentoo). I prefere to use telnet. I can do HTML rendering in my head (it's more standards compliant that way).
    telnet www.slashdot.org 80
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    # cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i llama
    Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
  9. redundant by corpsiclex · · Score: 5, Funny
    We've seen a few too many Firefox articles by now, but it is gaining a real presence in the market


    We know. The Other Articles told us.
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  10. I prefer... by wmaker · · Score: 2, Funny

    telnet to port 80.

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