We have all had our tryst with Internet Explorer and we have all been bugged, the downfall of the dominant browser was evident with rise of more efficient and supposedly secure browsers (read Firefox).
The statistics haven’t been to kind on Internet Explorer with the browser loosing about 49% market share (according to StatCounter) in a country like India (where new technology adoption is relatively slow), this despite the fact that the country does not have regulations unlike European Union! (If you remember the, it is mandatory for Microsoft to allow users choose their web browser during installation of it’s new operating system).
Internet Explorer’s share worldwide is now only about 55%. While Firefox is steady gaining at 31% and Chrome is growing at 7%. Apple still needs to learn something from it’s rivals, where browsers are concerned with it capturing only 4% of the market share.
Interestingly, one of the reason cited for the change is slow speed, other than the know security issue with Internet Explorer.
April 22nd, 2010 at 1:05 pm
nice