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IE Market Share Drops to Lowest Level in Years

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bruised-but-not-beaten dept.

Cultural Mosaic writes "Browser market share figures for September were released yesterday, and the numbers showed a big dip for Internet Explorer, as it dropped to just 82.10%, its lowest market share figure in years. Ars Technica notes that 'it's no surprise that Internet Explorer has been losing ground steadily over the past couple of years. There have been no significant innovations in the browser since XP SP2 was released over two years ago, and most of those were security tweaks.' Firefox grew from 10.77% in June to 12.46% while Safari jumped to its highest figure ever, 3.53%. I wonder how the release of Firefox 2.0 and IE 7 later this month will change the game?"

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  1. Re:Site stats by rolfwind · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think IE would be even lower, but a lot of businesses and school have IE and "force" it on them.

    My college has IE on all of it's terminals, so I guess, at times, I am a dot in their corner, although I consider IE less than useless w/o tabs and with pop-ups.

  2. It's a shame that... by PurifyYourMind · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...this number may go back up when Vista is released and/or if/when Microsoft pushes out IE7 as a Windows Update.