IE Losing 10% Market Share Every Two Years

mjasay writes "Mozilla's Asa Dotzler points to some interesting long-term trends in browser market share, noting that 'browser releases aren't having any major impact on the macro trends,' which suggests that a better IE will likely have little impact on its sliding market share. The most intriguing conclusion from the data, however, is that Firefox could surpass IE market share as early as January 2013 if Firefox continues to gain 5 percent every year, even as IE drops 5 percent each year. In the past, Microsoft might have fought back by tying IE to other products to block competition, but with the EU keeping a close antitrust eye on Microsoft and the US Obama administration keen to make an example of an antitrust bully, Microsoft may have few good options beyond good old fashioned competition, which doesn't seem to be working very well for the Redmond giant, as the market share data suggests. Microsoft's loss of IE market power, in turn, could have serious consequences for the company's efforts to compete with Google on the Web."

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Bug?

[Anonymous Coward]

Im being sent emails with story links while they are still only accessible to subscribers. Ignore this if its not a bug or is known. Have a nice day.

Oh, and, to not be completely OT, IE sux 8)

~Dreen

Yeah, but I don't really like Firefox

[Anonymous Coward]

Right now Firefox consume nearly 400MBs ram of my system, eating 300MBs of my HDD (I set offline cache to 20MBs only), and with crazy fsync that halt it everytime I copy a bigger than normal files.

I am really looking forward to Chrome on linux.