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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."

3 of 428 comments (clear)

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

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

  2. 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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  3. 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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