IE Market Share Falls To Historic Low

An anonymous reader writes "Predicting that Microsoft will lose market share from month to month isn't especially difficult. Yet it is amazing to see the downfall of what was once a bastion for Microsoft. It appears that Microsoft can't defend IE against Firefox and, as it seems, Google's Chrome. Net Applications now believes that IE has a share of less than 60%, which is about the range that IE had in early 1999, when IE5 was launched. IE is now officially back in the 1990s. Chrome, by the way, is the fastest growing browser, both in absolute numbers and percentages. It is well ahead of Safari and more than tripled its share within 12 months."

Comments

Re:The great thing about this: MS doesn't know why

[gman003]

Just like every feature, Microsoft is years behind. SVG is ten years old, with most other browsers supporting it for at least five years. HTML5 video tags have been supported for almost a year. Fast Javascript has been important since about 2006.

Microsoft has always been slow to add features, then announces them as revolutionary when they've been in other products for years.

Look at hardware-accelerated compositing. OS X had it since 2002. Windows didn't add that until Vista in 2006.

Virtual memory has been known since 1960, although the PC couldn't use that until the 80286 in 1982. Windows didn't support disk-based virtual memory until 1995. Preemptive multitasking is similar: it had been used in mainframes since 1969, and AmigaOS introduced it to home computers in 1985, ten years before Windows partially supported it.

Microsoft has always been behind in technical matters. The best thing to do on Windows is to replace whatever you want with better alternatives. The only area they're ahead on is game support, and that's not entirely their doing.

ah, the fight song of the freeloader

[circletimessquare]

bookmark your comment above

when the content you like disappears, you'll want to know why

ignorant twatstain

WHO PAYS FOR THE SHIT YOU LIKE, ASSHOLE

THE ADS DO, ASSHOLE

what is so hard for me to understand?

[circletimessquare]

you mean ECONOMICS?

ignorant smug jackass

the sites you use just appear by magic?

they get PAID for you ignorant tool

but again, its ok to adblock: no one is going to stop you. the problem is being proud of it. just be discrete, and just admit what you are: a freeloading asshole

its ok to be a freeloading asshole. as long as you are self-aware of your sleaziness and shut the fuck up about it

but if you smugly trumpet yourself in a public forum, as if you are doing nothing wrong, and i encounter your comment, i will call you out for what you are

you seem incapable of seeing your own shitty ignorant way of thinking about how the web actually fucking works financially. someday, maybe you'll understand reality. as it is now though, you're simply a parasite, and you don't even know it