stable IE7, are still losing market share to its "alternative"
competitors. Microsoft has been eager to push IE7 and more recently
IE8, trying to convince people to use the beta browser in an obvious
attempt to keep their dominance from slipping further. It's not
working that well for the software giant as December saw the overall
IE share dip down to below 70%, which is still a big majority
nonetheless.
Some of the recent losses are being attributed to the diminished usage
of Internet Explorer in the workplace. While we've been calling IE to
be broken for years now, typically businesses and institutions adopt
new software more slowly.
The losses IE has suffered amount to around 10% for the whole year and
represent gains across the board for others, namely Firefox, Safari
and Chrome. All three of these browsers have gained in December with
Firefox exceeding 21% and Chrome coming in above 1%. These aren't
localized figures, and we've seen statistics in the past that show
actual usage of browsers can vary wildly by what region of the world
people are in. Another very worthy competitor Opera seems to be flat
in terms of market growth.
Internet Explorer's drop of seven percentage point since February last
year is a continuing trend. Microsoft lost over nine percent of
browser market share in the preceding two years.
Most of IE's drop in the past year has been in Internet Explorer 6,
which fell from 30.63 percent last February to 19.21 percent this
January. Internet Explorer 7 has gained market share overall over the
same time period, rising from 44.03 percent to 47.32 percent.
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