Posted on Monday, August 14 2006 @ 1:00 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
A paper released by Janco Associates says the usage of Internet Explorer continued to drop this year, to 75.88 percent share in July 2006 from 77.01 percent in January 2006 and 84.05 percent in July 2005. That comes off its January 2003 peak of 92.39 percent/
"While Microsoft lost some browser market share in 2006, by the third quarter it seems to have stopped the rapid advance of Firefox. The delayed release of IE 7 could be a bad omen for its market share, but on the positive side, Microsoft has announced that when IE 7 is released it will be distributed as a 'Live Update' that will be tagged as a security release," the white paper says.
More details at
eWeek.
