IE’s market share: Down, down, down as the rivals go higher
This past November, Microsoft’s web browser, Internet Explorer (IE), saw its market share fall below 70 percent for the first time, according to data from Market Share. And the numbers look worse for the limited data from December so far, with IE now accounting for 68.15 percent of web browsers, as The Dallas Morning News points out.
Now, that’s still a huge share - still over three times larger than the second most popular web browser, Mozilla’s Firefox, which has 21.34 percent - but there’s an undeniable trend that IE is losing ground, and pretty quickly. In early 2007, the browser had an 80 percent market share. By early 2008 it was down to 75 percent, but by the time the early 2009 numbers come it could well be near 65 percent - as the rate of loss is clearly increasing.
