Internet Explorer's Share Dips Below 90%

sheepoo writes "CNN has a story stating that, according to a WebSideStory report, Internet Explorer has slipped below 90% usage share for the first time." From the article: "Firefox, an open-source browser collectively developed by the Internet community under the Mozilla Foundation, had a 6.8 percent share as of April 29, an increase from 3.0 percent since WebSideStory began tracking Firefox separately in October."

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Shoestring? Not quite

[sjbe]

Firefox has managed to take ~7% of the market in a short period of time from a massively well-funded competitor on an ultra, ultra, ultra shoestring budget.

"Ultra shoestring budget"? Relative to Microsoft sure, but the vast majority of Mozilla development occured with the direct financial support of AOL, Sun and what was left of Netscape after the buyout with numerous other companies contributing. The Mozilla foundation was given millions of dollars to get started. While none of that in any way detracts from how impressive their accomplishment is, I would hardly describe them as working on "an ultra, ultra, ultra shoestring budget."

Re:Who measures and how measures?

[bunratty]

What does 90% market share really mean? I use both IE and Firefox on the same machine. Do they both get counted?

It's not 90% market share. It's 90% usage share. If you use IE half the time and Firefox half the time, they are both counted equally. If you have IE installed and never use it, it's not counted.

Re:Tell me when

[geoffspear]

Wow, mods. Way to moderate a statement that couldn't possibly be more obviously false as "Informative".

Yes, a decrease in growth does exactly equal the decrease in the rate of growth. That's what growth means. The rate of increase. The rate of growing.

Did you mean to say that a decrease in growth isn't the same thing as a decrease in the number of users? That's true, and maybe not as obvious to a lot of people as it should be.