IE Web Browser Market Share Increases, Chrome Drops
Microsoft's browser accounts for more than half of market, while Google Chrome hits 17-month low.
Microsoft's web browser market share has increased with Internet Explorer, while Google's Chrome has decreased.
During February, Microsoft's browser accounted for 55.82 percent of global users, a slight increase from 55.14 percent in January. The figures stem from Net Applications, which tracks data from 160 million unique visitors a month across 40,000 websites.
Internet Explorer 8 and 9 are the most popular versions of the browser, which boasts a 23.38 percent and 21.67 percent hold of the market, respectively. Internet Explorer 10, however, settles for fewer users than older versions of the browser with 1.58 percent. Windows 7, currently the most popular version of the software giant's operating system, received IE 10 last month, several months after the updated browser's launch.
Google Chrome saw its market share decrease to 16.27 percent in February, a 1.21 percent decrease from 17.48 percent in January. The drop has led to the first month that Chrome has slipped below 17 percent since September 2011. It also follows three months of decline at the end of 2012.
Mozilla followed Microsoft in second with 20.12 percent via Firefox, representing a slight increase from a 19.94 percent market share in January. Safari increased its share by 0.18 percent to 5.42 percent, while Opera gained 0.10 percent for a 0.55 percent share.
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People use facebook and google.com -- Chrome is the least of there concerns
Remember -- Windows RT you CANNOT use a third party browser aka Windows RT = IE
I say this is all down to Windows 8 sales -- you gotta use IE to get Chrome right?
FALSE
chrome spys on EVERYTHING you do on the internet, including your facebook use and including your google.com use and including everything else you do.
google also built a keylogger into google chrome (the address bar).
here's a bit on how google defines 'anonomyzing user data'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/12/google_ip_anonymization
"In telling the world Google will anonymize user IPs after only nine months, Google has appeased EU regulators. At least in part. But it looks like Mountain View's new policy is just another example of Google Privacy Theatre.
On Monday evening, when Google deputy counsel Nicole Wong trumpeted the new nine month policy to Silicon Valley's Churchill Club, she said the company was still mulling "the implementation details." But later in the week, the company outlined its plan with a few terse sentences tossed CNet's way.
After nine months, the company has confirmed with The Reg, Google will "change some of the bits" in the user IPs stored in its server logs. But as the plan stands now, it will leave cookie data alone.
This means the missing bits are easily retrieved."
Note I must use ie for work related website access so I do use both browsers daily.
Funny, this kind of article poses 2 seperate fanboi arguements against each other
1) Windows 8 is fail
2) IE is fail
If IE share goes up if is either because the usage of Windows 8 has increased, so it's NOT fail - or the usage of IE on other OSs has increased, so that is NOT fail - either way people are slowly leaning back towards Microsoft
Its sad to say I have encountered more than a few times where a button or link flat out wont work in chrome and I when I switch over to IE it works just fine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
QFT...although one would expect "smoothness" as MS knows its own OS better than anybody else. Sort of like MSE vs other av software.
If only there were a free ad-blocking extension for IE10...Simple AdBlock seems to be the only game in town, and it costs like $20 or so.
Ok, but look at the small share of IE10 (the version on Windows 8/RT). Unless those were mostly Chrome converts, I don't know if that explains all of it.
Either way, looks like the Scroogled campaign is taking root. I wonder if a "Firefucked" campaign is next on the chopping block. Spending money on smear campaigns ALWAYS nets solid returns
I never cared much for Chrome anyways. It is too minimalistic. I get a much greater scope of addons and customization with Firefox. Chrome is also a memory hog. Though I don't know how bad IE is.