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Microsoft browser market share drops…again
Microsoft looks set to lose the battle of the browsers in due time, with the latest results of browser market share being broken down into the following :-
1. Microsoft Internet Explorer – 58.50%
2 Firefox – 18.94%
3. Netscape – 11.63%
4. Google Desktop – 4.01%
5. Mozilla – 3.05%
That’s pretty much a 6.96% drop compared to the corresponding period last year. This is where the strengths of a free market comes in – people get what they want, always keeping the manufacturers (software houses in this case) on their toes as they try their level best to wrest users away from one another. Image courtesy of TechTracer.
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Steve Says: August 11, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Internet Exploder is slowly and surely dying a well-timed death, as deserved! That excuse for a Browser is lame, has more security holes than a sieve and considering that MS stole many of the features from Mozilla, the end result is obvious.
People today are more informed and educated and know full well what kind of bug infested garbage Microslop puts out, so Mozilla Firefox is the Browser of choice, for those in the know!
Neagle Says: August 11, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Internet Explorer is like using AOL for an internet provider, just dumb. This survey is bit skewed though. Mozilla produces Firefox and Camino browsers. Is Google Desktop a browser?
Jen Says: August 12, 2008 at 7:16 am
Just like the previous posters, I don’t see how Google Desktop is a browser. As for Safari (and my beloved Opera), they’re on the last places of the top – see the full results here: http://www.e-janco.com/browser.php
Al Says: August 12, 2008 at 7:42 am
On CG our stats are:
IE: 50%
FF: 40%
Safari: 7%
Opera: 1.6%
Others: the rest
Which I’d expect as we have more tech savvy readers.
Jen Says: August 12, 2008 at 7:45 am
Pah, they clearly don’t know what the coolest browser in the world is 
Al Says: August 12, 2008 at 7:52 am
Out of the above Opera is the only one that I never use, it’s the plugins for FF that do it for me.
Jen Says: August 12, 2008 at 9:51 am
Heh, a browser war is an useless topic that goes nowehere, I was half-joking. Right now Opera has more useful features for me than Firefox, but I do know that doesn’t make it necesarilly better. FF does have its good points (such as all the cool toolbars), but the bad stuff are still keeping me off switching browsers (and, to get the functionality Opera has built-in, I have to install a lot of addons, and I just can’t be bothered..)
Al Says: August 11, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Is Google desktop a browser, also what about Safari