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Soon, Majority of Web Users Will No Longer Use IE

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Feb 02, 2009

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It might take a few more years, or it might happen suddenly, but trends appear to indicate that the time when Internet Explorer is used by the majority of people on the web will soon come to an end.

New numbers from analytics firm Net Applications put IE at a mere 67.5%, having dropped more than 7% last year. The bulk of that loss is coming from users of IE 6, an 8 year old browser that many users now appear to be replacing with Firefox, Safari or Chrome, instead of updated versions of IE.

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The remaining 20% of web users still using IE 6 could rapidly defect and switch teams to Firefox or Chrome, changing the market share numbers all the more. Who would have thought that a day would come so soon when only 2/3 of web users were using IE? We wouldn't be surprised to see that number fall below 50% relatively soon.

As CNet reports 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.

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Comments (16)

Skyabove,

Feb 03, 2009

On that day I will dance and sing and all will be right with the world.

Sumanth,

Feb 03, 2009

IE is not at all developer friendly. Its a good sign. Firefox became a default browser option for many.

Spuds,

Feb 03, 2009

Not before time! Long live Firefox and Chrome.

Nigelwalsh,

Feb 03, 2009

browsers like anything else evolve and some come and go - how many of us on here used Netscape!

I think the report misses again the age profile. Of course Gen Y folks are using Firefox, chrome, etc etc - what about X and our Silver Surfers? I think the profile could be very different..

Mcharity,

Feb 03, 2009

Interesting

Infodiva,

Feb 03, 2009

I will say Goodbye, like I did to Netscape.

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Feb 03, 2009

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Zahhh,

Feb 04, 2009

I dislike IE's design interface, user unfriendly and always lagging behind times. Love Firefox!

Callie O,

Feb 05, 2009

Net users are slowly becoming more informed. Though how they are learning is a mystery to me when the complex issue of search is not core education lol

Ketan,

Feb 05, 2009

We all should forget IE and go with firefox.

Ex Modia,

Feb 05, 2009

IE? What's that?

Skyabove,

Feb 05, 2009

Internet Explorer used to be good (not great). It would still be good if it did not crash all of the time. Netscape, Chrome, Firefox, Flock all have cooler interfaces, better add-ons, etc... but that would not be enough to make most people switch. Most people switch because of they are tired of IE crashing for no particular reason, at any given moment.

Advantage,

Feb 05, 2009

The market share of IE would never drop lower than Firefox... Why? Most personal computer uses windows and has IE embedded in it. Unless Microsoft Windows market share will drop too... :(

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Feb 05, 2009

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Friarminor,

Feb 07, 2009

It might surprise most peeps that there are still some who dunno what FF is! Naturally, we head instantly to the download page.

Callie O,

Feb 07, 2009

As the great Marc Presnky points out there is a vast differential between the fluent and new to the net - digital immigrants vs digital natives is massive. And even the natives are not properly taught to search the net. Time to look to education. Not browsers. Then at least we can all make an informed decision about browsers. Personally I am a recent chrome adoptee. Ex Flock.