IE Drops To Single-Digit Market Share

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

[kesuki]

keep in mind windows 8 live tiles are all front ended with internet explorer. so they are anticipating higher ie traffic to sites that windows preloads so they can sound like they are doing something to compete with open source browsers...

Re:More reprsentative stats please

[Anubis IV]

I bet apple.com is even lower ;)

You might be surprised. I seem to recall that they revealed the breakdown a few years back, and the IE traffic was much higher than you'd expect, simply because of interest from the typical, rank-and-file Windows variety of users who were looking for a change. I'll admit that I could be misremembering, however.

Re:More reprsentative stats please

[amicusNYCL]

I would think somewhere like google search to be a better place to gather stats for this.

You would think, but then again most people probably don't change the default search provider in their browser. And I don't believe that IE's default search provider is Google.