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Internet Explorer's Share Dips Below 90%

Posted by Zonk on from the something-about-a-fox dept.

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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  1. Monopoly no more! - Well, not really.. by TheCeltic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now "only" 9 out of every 10 systems uses IE. Hopefully FireFox will continue to grow and IE will continue to shrink.. of course that will be tough when Microsoft copies all of Firefox's features in the next release of IE.

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  2. Who measures and how measures? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

    I love vague facts and figures

  3. I show 15.52% by QuietLagoon · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I run a website for information about a certain stock that I follow. Most of the people visiting the site are individual investors. The site is about a company in the drug testing business. I say all that, because I wanted to note that the people visiting the site are not what I would consider to be technical people or so-called early adopters.

    FireFox has tallied up 15.52 percent of the hits to my site since May 1.

  4. Surfing from work by grahamsz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's probably based on the platform you use to work on.

    When i was at school i predominantly surfed from linux, at work it's predominantly solaris, and when i change jobs i'll be back to windows.

    If you are in the computer field then you pretty much run whatever OS is required for your job.

  5. first time? by spoonyfork · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Internet Explorer has slipped below 90% usage share for the first time.

    First time? Was the author born after 1998?

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  6. Fewer MS-only websites, I hope by G4from128k · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I hope that this data will motivates webmasters and site designers to create more universally viewable sites.

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  7. Re:No, wait! by killjoe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "But, wait, actually. Seriously for a second. Isn't this exactly the type of competition that the DOJ argued would/could never happen as long IE was integrated into Windows? Wasn't the argument that IE was illegal tying because there would not be competition due to MS's dominance with Windows? "

    That's right. And you yourself admit that 90% is dominance. Why don't we wait till MS share drops below 50% before deciding who was right and wrong. As of today it looks like the DOJ was 100% correct. Due to bundling of IE a superior, more secure and free product is not able to get even a 10% share.

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  8. Re:BULLSHIT!!! by mattyrobinson69 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    firefox does not render the web according to a standard. check this test if you dont believe me:

    http://www.webstandards.org/act/acid2/

    no browser renders the web according to the standards. have you ever tried writing a website to work across all browsers?

    even safari (the only browser so far to pass acid2) doesn't render according to standards - they had to hack the code to make it render the parts of the standards that acid2 touched on (not the entire standard).

    Firefox has a bug, deal with it.