Internet Explorer Market Share at 10-Yr Low Point
Is Internet Explorer slipping?
The internet browser market has never been as competitive as it is now. With the entry of Google Chome and the continued loyalty of Firefox users, now web users have more choice than just to use the browser that came with their OS, be it Apple's Safari or Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
According to tracking firm Net Applications, reported by Conceivably Tech overall internet browser usage during April had Internet Explorer's share at a low point that it hasn't experienced since 1999.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer family still held the lion's share at 59.95 percent, while Firefox gained 0.07 points to be second place at 24.59 percent. Chrome grew 0.6 points to 6.73 percent. Apple’s Safari grew slightly 0.06 points to 4.72 percent – probably mostly due to new Mac users, and Opera fell 0.07 points to 2.30 percent.
Before people see that this is the end of Internet Explorer, one interesting note is that Microsoft's browser showed the most growth overall throughout April. Internet Explorer 8 usage jumped 1.08 percent, nearly double that of the next closest runner. Of course, some of that has to be due to the growing acceptance of Windows 7.
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I use IE every single day and so does every pc within this company and, due to the fact that I don't run as admin and neither do they, we've had ZERO infections in over eight years. Funny that.
Then again, I don't surf for pron, illegal wares, ripped music or watch Chinese streamed vids. I blame PEOPLE for infections, not IE.
Besides that, I've only just started using Opera after all these years due to it's quick dial feature (Dell Latitude XT2 set to 125% Dispaly DPI!).
Either way, I expect MS to release IE9 to a great fanfair
IE is shit, its as simple as that. The people using it are drones who install windows and then switch their brain off and don't bother looking for a superior browser.
The only use for IE is to install Firefox or Chrome and then never use it again. The layout is so cluttered with random buttons, it takes up half the screen, CONSTANTLY asks me questions about tags or search engine or some crap. They don't ever seem to update it either, unlike Firefox or Chrome.
The main reason IE _deserves_ to be abandoned is that it is always years behind in supporting the standarts. E.g. CSS 3 is available since a decade and M$ _will_ implement it in ... IE9. Not to mention the lack of SVG and HTML 5.
I use IE8 for web development and I can tell you - it still does not like AJAX and images at all and we constantly get CPU spikes and screen tearing. Its memory management is awfull, though alot better than IE6-7.
Apart from that it's never been secure. Constraining yourself to a limited set of sites is a good idea, until your computer gets infected by viruses from random Ads. Also you had lots of XSS, Adobe Flash/PDF vulnerabilities that M$ never fixed on time and in XP, limited user rights would seldom stop a decent virus from escalating priviledges, once it's running on the computer...
And the best part of all of this is - IE9 will be Vista/7 only. Not only late, but unavailable to half of the users. So, yes - IE deserves to be abandoned. It brought so much suffering to all of us - it has to end. The sooner, the better.
hopefully this is a stable trend
Thank God. 40% of the market now has some form of common sense. If only 40% of the people would use their brain when it came to what they used their browser for, malware wouldn't be half as threatening as it is today...
If half the people used their brain, would they buy ipads? Macs? High mpg cars? McDonalds? Cake?
P.s. I experienced the same damn virus pop-ups using Opera as I do in ie8 (From Anandtech of all places)
the slip is/was probably caused by IE7.
I use IE all the time, allways have, i once or twice used firefox due to some flash version issues in the past but other than that it's firmly IE.
I have never had an infection, i make websites and they display OK for me on IE, the fact that the market only "livened up" when the splash screen jumped onto their PC's and the news was all over security holes in IE (IE 6 that is un-updated for years .. doh!) makes it quite funny.
It is however a shame to see how the fanboi's (of all variety) are really that dumb, i thought it was a fad maybe, but apparently the majority are just really dumb! ..and for "that type" they deserve to have all the problems that come with the "revolutinary" software they try at a whim or because of hype or a news article. ...more fool them, i have been safe scince 1993 because of IE, and it will stay that way
ie is ok, safe enough these days. As a web designer 7 and 8 are pretty good (as long as you stop them from trying to emulate older stuff). the horror show is IE6. Holy hell that is a bag of poo. Still at about 8% usage, though declining pretty rapidly thankfully.
Let's face it ... all of us here were bred on IE, when we were at a nascent stage of web browsing. The problem is that Microsoft still thinks we ought to be bred some more ...
I haven't used it since IE6, but with the releasse of IE9, i will be using it for a period, to test it.
hahahahaha good riddance IE