Firefox Continues to Bite into IE Usage

InformationSage writes "According to Information Week, Firefox usage is now over 6 percent, pulling Internet Explorer usage down below 90 percent. 'Firefox is currently the only browser that is increasing market share on a monthly basis, and it is growing at the direct expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer'"

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Re:I Would like to think that IE is loosing ...

[BasilBrush]

I submitted too early. I was going to say that the absolute percentage market share for I.E. varies from site to site based on topic/readers. However, every single report of a trend that we've had in the last couple of years has shown a steady decline for I.E.

Incidentally, the OS share stats from W3schools are interesting too. Sorry about the formatting, I can't seem to get tabs to space properly.

2005 Windows Linux Mac
March 90.2% 3.2% 3.0%
February 90.4% 3.2% 2.9%
January 90.4% 3.2% 2.8%

2004 Windows Linux Mac
December 89.9% 3.1% 2.7%
November 89.7% 3.1% 2.7%
October 90.3% 3.1% 2.6%
September 90.2% 3.1% 2.6%
August 90.3% 3.0% 2.5%
July 90.5% 3.1% 2.4%
June 91.1% 2.9% 2.5%
May 91.1% 2.9% 2.5%
April 91.1% 2.7% 2.5%
March 91.3% 2.6% 2.4%
February 91.6% 2.6% 2.5%
January 91.5% 2.7% 2.4%

2003 Windows Linux Mac
December 92.1% 2.7% 2.3%
November 93.7% 2.6% 2.2%
October 93.2% 2.5% 2.1%
September 92.6% 2.4% 2.0%
August 93.9% 2.4% 2.0%
July 93.0% 2.3% 1.9%
June 92.6% 2.3% 1.8%
May 92.8% 2.2% 1.8%
April 93.1% 2.1% 1.8%
March 93.2% 2.2% 1.8%

* Note that Windows has had a boost of 0.5% between Dec and Jan 2004. This is because they appear to have stopped recording Win95 as it's slipped down below 0.1%, but they've started recording "Win .NET", which at a guess is beta copies of Longhorn. But Linux and Mac OS continued to grow, so I don't think that represents any real reversal in Windows decline.