Both Windows and Internet Explorer are losing market share.
The first of every month (like hourly stats? click here) brings Market Share NetApplication data which kinda/sorta gives us an idea of how different platforms and browsers are doing against one another. I say kinda because the data is based on visits to a group of websites, not any other sort of hard data.
Now that isn't some guy checking his blog's Google Analytics stats. It is a group of large websites that see 160 million viewers a month. Significant but not the be all and end all. The true value is in watching trends month over month.
This month was a bad one for Microsoft.
First, in the browser arena, Internet Explorer, which has been the dominant browser since 2004 when NetApplications started tracking data (over 91% in Q4 2004) is now set to go below the 70% of the market share. Who is taking up these viewers? By and large, it is Firefox who has just surpassed 20% marketshare for the first time. In 2004, it had 3.6%. Apple's Safari (6.8%) and newcomer Google Chrome (<1%) have been taking some marketshare recently as well but most IE defectos are heading to Firefox.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/154785/article.html?tk=nl_dnxnws
The first of every month (like hourly stats? click here) brings Market Share NetApplication data which kinda/sorta gives us an idea of how different platforms and browsers are doing against one another. I say kinda because the data is based on visits to a group of websites, not any other sort of hard data.
Now that isn't some guy checking his blog's Google Analytics stats. It is a group of large websites that see 160 million viewers a month. Significant but not the be all and end all. The true value is in watching trends month over month.
This month was a bad one for Microsoft.
First, in the browser arena, Internet Explorer, which has been the dominant browser since 2004 when NetApplications started tracking data (over 91% in Q4 2004) is now set to go below the 70% of the market share. Who is taking up these viewers? By and large, it is Firefox who has just surpassed 20% marketshare for the first time. In 2004, it had 3.6%. Apple's Safari (6.8%) and newcomer Google Chrome (<1%) have been taking some marketshare recently as well but most IE defectos are heading to Firefox.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/154785/article.html?tk=nl_dnxnws
