IE Gains Usage Share
Posted by admin | Posted in Articles, Browsers | Posted on 07-08-2010
NetMarketShare has released market usage share data for browsers for July and it shows some increase for Internet Explorer and some loss for Mozilla’s FireFox and Google’s Chrome.
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| Browser | June 2010 | July 2010 | Change |
| Internet Explorer | 60.32% | 60.74% | + 0.42% |
| Firefox | 23.81% | 22.91% | - 0.90% |
| Chrome | 7.24% | 7.16% | - 0.08% |
| Safari | 4.85% | 5.09% | + 0.24% |
| Opera | 2.27% | 2.45% | + 0.18% |
| Other | 1.51% | 1.66% | + 0.15% |
Source: NetMarketShare
Microsoft is quite happy with these results:
Last month, we saw coverage about Internet Explorer posting a worldwide gain in usage share. That encouraging news continues today with Net Applications’ release of their July usage share numbers. Net Applications reports overall Internet Explorer share grew 0.42% worldwide in July, while Firefox lost 0.90% share and Chrome dipped 0.08% in share. Most interesting is the fact that Internet Explorer 8 continues to be the fastest growing browser with a 0.98% increase worldwide in July – and now represents more than 30% of browser usage worldwide. In the US, Internet Explorer 8 picked up share for the third month in a row.
Ryan Gavin in IE Blog
Not much of an increase but it does indicate Microsoft’s comeback in the browser market. They are still 5% away from getting to what it was in 2009.
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