IE Drops To Single-Digit Market Share

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 30, 2014 @07:27AM from the but-high-in-the-single-digits dept.

New submitter fplatten writes "I think this is all you need to see to know what legacy Steve Ballmer has left at Microsoft, where its IE browser market share has collapsed from a high of 86% in 2002 to just 9% now. I guess this is just another in a long list of tech companies that failed to maintain its dominant market share. Also, IE may be the one product that never really deserved it, but just piggybacked on Windows, and users left in droves once decent (more secure) alternatives and standards became popular." Microsoft stockholders probably don't feel too badly about the Ballmer legacy overall, though -- browser choice is a pretty small arm of the octopus.

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Re:More reprsentative stats please by hendrips · 2014-01-30 08:31 · Score: 1, Flamebait

How is this insightful? In general the people who directly shop for insurance online tend to be more savvy than average. The idiots are the customers who let an insurance agent (commissioned salesman) do the shopping for them. I don't know about the OP's employer, though - he may not even be maintaining websites for customers.