IE9 May Not Be Enough To Save IE

An anonymous reader writes "The October market share numbers are in and Net Applications' numbers show a surprising drop in IE8 market share — the first time since the browser was introduced. Strangely, IE9 has not gained much and IE7 as well as IE6 are losing as well. The only two browsers gaining are Chrome and Safari — and both browsers have hit new record market shares. The frenzy around IE8 may have subsided already, and Microsoft is under tremendous pressure to roll out IE9 soon. StatCounter's numbers indicate that Firefox is close to surpassing IE in Europe."

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FTFS (mostly offtopic)

[Pojut]

Statcounter is a pretty awesome site for tracking stats on a website/blog. It's transparent, easy to use, and best of all it's free (unless you want a bigger log.) I know there are a lot of options out there, but if you're looking for a free way to track the statistics on a smallish website of yours, I highly recommend you check them out.

Not a paid endorsement; I'm just a satisfied user of their services.

Re:I quite fancy giving IE9 a try

[ztransform]

Microsoft Vista? $200. Microsoft 7? $300. Losing your hard-drive and being unable to recover because your licence is tied to a particular disk in a particular physical machine? Priceless!

Re:Hmm.

[h4rm0ny]

The frenzy around IE9 may have subsided already and [...]

The one the Slashdot editors try to pretend there was in order to stir up some more juicy-post-count boosting flamewars. IE9 beta came out. Surprisingly seemed quite good and certainly zippy. Some people made comments. Apparently that's a "frenzy" to Slashdot editors.

Re:Reports of IE9's death greatly exaggerated.

[commodore64_love]

Ooops. I was looking at this "Europe: IE's defenses are down... Firefox with 31.24% and IE with 49.22%," but that's the world numbers.