razorsedge
October 7th, 2010, 08:10 AM
Microsoft Internet Explorer browser has fallen below 50% of the worldwide market for the first time according to StatCounter. The company’s research arm, StatCounter Global Stats finds that Microsoft IE fell to 49.87% in September followed by Firefox with 31.5%.
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Google’s Chrome continues to increase market share at an impressive rate and has more than tripled from 3.69% in September 2009 to 11.54% in September this year.
“This is certainly a milestone in the Internet browser wars. Just two years ago IE dominated the worldwide market with 67%.”
Microsoft’s agreement with European Commission competition authorities to offer EU users a choice and menu of browsers from March may have tipped IE below 50% globally.
In Europe, IE market share has fallen to 40.26% in September this year from 46.44% in September last year. In North America IE is still above 50% at 52.3% followed by Firefox at 27.21% and Chrome at 9.87%.
The rise of Google Chrome in North America has also been impressive and in June it overtook Safari for the first time.
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Google’s Chrome continues to increase market share at an impressive rate and has more than tripled from 3.69% in September 2009 to 11.54% in September this year.
“This is certainly a milestone in the Internet browser wars. Just two years ago IE dominated the worldwide market with 67%.”
Microsoft’s agreement with European Commission competition authorities to offer EU users a choice and menu of browsers from March may have tipped IE below 50% globally.
In Europe, IE market share has fallen to 40.26% in September this year from 46.44% in September last year. In North America IE is still above 50% at 52.3% followed by Firefox at 27.21% and Chrome at 9.87%.
The rise of Google Chrome in North America has also been impressive and in June it overtook Safari for the first time.