Internet Explorer market share drops below 50% !

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Microsoft Internet Explorer browser has fallen below 50% of the worldwide market for the first time according to StatCounter. The company’s research arm, StatCounter Global Stats finds that Microsoft IE fell to 49.87% in September followed by Firefox with 31.5%.

ie share oct2010 Internet Explorer market share drops below 50% !

Google’s Chrome continues to increase market share at an impressive rate and has more than tripled from 3.69% in September 2009 to 11.54% in September this year.

“This is certainly a milestone in the Internet browser wars. Just two years ago IE dominated the worldwide market with 67%.”

Microsoft’s agreement with European Commission competition authorities to offer EU users a choice and menu of browsers from March may have tipped IE below 50% globally.

In Europe, IE market share has fallen to 40.26% in September this year from 46.44% in September last year. In North America IE is still above 50% at 52.3% followed by Firefox at 27.21% and Chrome at 9.87%.

The rise of Google Chrome in North America has also been impressive and in June it overtook Safari for the first time.

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  • SpudGie

    I have become very disappointed in IE. I’m starting to use Chrome more, however I wish it had more of IE features.

  • TheBigOldDog

    I moved to Firefox years ago. IE just became too slow and too unreliable. Once I started using FF and then customized it with all the available add-ons, I never went back. I even loaded IE9 and it has nothing to offer me.

  • ryan

    i think ie9 is going to have more if an impact than ever it is faster than firefox and tells you what addons are breakking your start time

  • Dan

    IE’s time has come and gone.. It is a bloated dinosaur in these modern times…Went to Chrome, and have never looked back…

  • Vishal

    Hi… I like to give a suggestion to MVP & Microsoft & IE 9 developers to quickly give patches for all problems reported and must enhance new features & more add-ons and support than in IE 9 beta. And they must put ads on TV channels to climb up market shares!

  • Grr

    I’m very happy to know IE share dropping…

    Grr

  • Moppheus

    They are not tracking IE9 usage yet. So, all those of us that have dropped IE8 for IE9 are not counted. The statistics are flawed…

  • Polaris

    I hate IE… as a web designer I always have to work twice as much on any website coding (CSS) just to go around the non compliance problems (even their IE8 doesn’t support rounded corners, shadows, gradient CSS… all the other browsers DO.