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IE Market Share Drops Below 70%

Posted by timothy on from the probably-too-late-to-open-source-ie dept.

Mike writes "Microsoft's market share in the browser dropped below 70% for the first time in eight years, while Mozilla broke the 20% barrier for the first time in its history. It's too early to tell for sure, but if Net Applications' numbers are correct, then Microsoft's Internet Explorer will end 2008 with a historic market share loss in a software segment Microsoft believes is key to its business."

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  1. 3 options by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Looks like MS has 3 options:
    1. Accept their falling marketshare (good for everyone)
    2. Provide substantial IE improvements to regain marketshare (good for everyone)
    3. release a "bug fix" that just happens to fuck up firefox
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  2. Re:Old news by Kjella · · Score: 5, Interesting

    God, this article must be one of the crappiest in a long, long time. The december figures are already up!

    Browser trends
    MSIE 68.15%
    Firefox 21.34%
    Safari 7.93%
    Chrome 1.04%
    Opera 0.71%

    Operating system trends
    Windows 88.68%
    Macs 9.63%
    Linux 0.85%
    iPhone 0.44%

    The two line summary:
    Firefox and Safari both take lots of market share from MSIE which is now way below 70%.
    Macs have a huge one-month (0.8%) and two-month (1.4%) rise while Linux is flatline.

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  3. Re:Opera's low percentage. by freedumb2000 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yes, I am surprised that even Chrome has a higher usage share, considering Opera is actually a very good and useable browser and has been around for a long time. It would actually be a great all-in-one solution for many since it is a great browser, email client and torrent downloading in one application.

  4. Re:Layoffs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The number of programmers employed to write shrink-wrap software aimed at consumers is a tiny fraction of the number of programmers writing software for use inside their own company.

  5. Re:Layoffs by ImpShial · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I work for one of the top 5 insurance companies in the U.S. and SQL Server utilized as the back end for at least 50% of the apps currently running. The rest use DB2 Mainframe as the back end, and many of those are being re-written using both J2EE and .NET with SQL Server as the back-end. SQL Server is used in many of the shops I've worked for, and as more companies do the J2EE vs .NET juggle, SQL Server is fairly common.

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