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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. Re:Yay! by powerspike · · Score: 0, Troll

    I remember when MSIE made the web, when they started putting it with the OS is when the internet started taking off.

    Until then, it was still a geeks paradise, Mom and pop's had to pay hundred's to be hooked up. Around that time, it was Click on MSIE, the computer would dial up, make an account, and you could use the internet.

    Peoples hate of MS blinds them to the fact that they have done some hugely good things in the process to get to were they are.

  2. Vista by hey · · Score: 0, Troll

    Maybe its because Vista was such a failure.
    People sticked with their existing boxes which eventually got upgraded to Firefox.

  3. With those two, M$ is dead. by freenix · · Score: -1, Troll

    According to Heather Bellini, of UBS AB and the top-ranked software analyst by Institutional Investor magazine all five M$ divisions were behind expectations and most are losers.

    every one of Microsoft's five divisions may miss the company's and analysts' sales forecasts. The world's biggest software maker won't be able to cut enough costs to meet profit goals

    Things have only gotten worse, which is why Oppenheimer & Co's analyst Brad Reback advises 10% cuts and others as much as 17%. None of that can save Vista, Zune, IE and other failures.