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Re-examining IE's drop below 60%: IE8 actually showed the most growth in April
However, I received an email from a Microsoft spokesperson this morning which pointed out something I'd missed initially. Despite Internet Explorer's overall slide in market share, guess which browser actually showed the most growth during the month of April?
Internet Explorer 8.
Tarran notes that IE8's gain of 1.08% was nearly double that of Chrome at .6%. Even in the European Union IE8 managed to keep pace with Firefox in terms of growth.
That's at least somewhat of a silver lining in the cloud for Microsoft... right?
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Subscribe to commentsAramMay 4th 2010 12:38PM
second last sentence should read "European Union" instead of European Unition...
shimiMay 4th 2010 2:55PM
Wonder if the Microsoft spokesmen realized that the IE8 incline is probably due to people who got so frustrated with the worse-OS-ever (besides maybe ME?), a.k.a. Windows Vista, and just upgraded to 7 to re-gain the speed they had in XP - or even not that - people who just purchased new computers, and of course, got, without their will or choice, a copy of Windows 7, which includes... IE8 ?
I am of course kidding. Of course they know that; Only thing left to wonder is what will they claim when everybody who plans to have 7, will have 7, and still the marketshare of IE continue to decline...
samMay 4th 2010 11:59PM
So backwards people trying to hang on to a dying browser by finally upgrading to a less crappy version is supposed to scare Firefox?
samMay 5th 2010 12:23PM
WOW ACTUALLY IE8 ONLY GAINED .96% ... (from 23.70% - 24.66%) OMG
FURTHERMORE,
if we want to talk about browser versions FIREFOX 3.6 gained 4.08% (11.25% - 15.33%)
wow talk about checking your sources! http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=3