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Internet Explorer Market Share Drops To Almost 15%

Posted by timothy on from the glass-15-percent-full dept.

glitch0 writes "Internet Explorer used to be the most prevalent browser with a market share that peaked at 88% in March of 2003. Now they're down to almost 15% due to stiff competition from Google, Mozilla, and even Apple. What implications does this have for the future of Microsoft?"

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  1. Implications for Microsoft by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Informative

    What implications does this have for the future of Microsoft?

    It means they failed to pwn the internet, thank all the gods

    But after Netscape withered it was Apache + BSD servers that kept them from it, not Firefox. If Microsoft had won on that front, they could have easily forced a MSInternet on us.

    It was a close thing, but settled quite a few years ago. This story is about a symptom of *that* failure, not a failure in its own right. No need to use Microsoft products, if Microsoft doesn't pwn the infrastructure or file format.

    They haven't given up pwning the PC yet, though. (New "secure" boot loader - mostly secure for Microsoft.)

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  2. Re:Really one a sample size of 1 website? by kesuki · · Score: 5, Informative

    i just checked and wikipedia paints a different tale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
    i consider wikipedia as a pretty common denominator of who uses the web, google cheats, and some web based spyware is commonly blocked by advanced users (with ghostery or the like)
    android users are 4% of the browser marketshare at wikipedia.

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  3. Re:The missing number, by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 5, Informative

    You haven't told us the number of visitors to your site or its location. No one who posts stats like yours to Slashdot ever does.

    If I had posted a link, then I'd be accused of being a shill or trolling for page hits - there's no winning either way. But here's the info from Google Analytics since 1/1/2012:

    Visits: 138,719
    Unique Visitors: 117,592
    Pageviews: 237,555

    Traffic sources:

    72.08% Search Traffic (99,994 Visits)
    16.11% Referral Traffic (22,344 Visits)
    11.81% Direct Traffic

    URL: http://westsidegardener.com/ - There, now I'm a shameless shill.

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