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IE Drops To Single-Digit Market Share

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. More reprsentative stats please by Richard_at_work · · Score: 5, Informative

    W3Schools has a very skewed demographic, I wouldn't take their figures to be a true representative across the board.

    My companies websites (Insurance) have an IE share of about 40%.

    1. Re:More reprsentative stats please by jones_supa · · Score: 5, Informative

      StatCounter's 12/2013 data shows IE being at 24.91%.

    2. Re:More reprsentative stats please by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 5, Informative

      I keep the stats on 12 state government websites. As sad as it may be, the lowest I've ever seen IE (taken as a whole) dip was 55%. And, for the record every site is tested and compliant on a multitude of browsers and not a single one recommends IE. We're getting there, but we're not at single digits yet.

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      "Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
    3. Re:More reprsentative stats please by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Informative

      I just popped up our site's stats We have had about 31,000 visits this month (according to awstats). IE comes in at 23%. The winner is Safari at 26.1%, so that tells use there are a helluva lot of iPhones out there. Firefox and Mozilla come in at 17.3% and 10%. Chrome comes in at 16.1%.

      What it tells me, most of all, is that smart devices are becoming the dominant surfing platforms, and that not just IE, but Windows in general in slipping down the list.

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    4. Re:More reprsentative stats please by noh8rz10 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Tom's Hardware has a good rep, right? not a shill review site? I think it is like Anandtech.

      http://www.tomshardware.com/re...

      Results start on page 4. ie10 doesn't blow away everybody else, but it's middle of the pack on most metrics and best or near best on some metrics. notably, there's no consistent winner across the board, it's not like any one browser is the king.

      before it used to be 2x worse than the others!

  2. Re:Stock price by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    100 shares purchased on January 3, 2000 would have cost $11,656.00.

    With stock splits and dividends, current value is $9,941.88 for a minus 14.71% return.

    http://www.microsoft.com/investor/Stock/StockSplit/stockcalc.aspx