Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share • Hacker News Board

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by pilif » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 2:40 PM UTC

Unfortunately, I have to deal with a much different picture in my case. The web application is often used by either complete computer illiterates or users in large corporate installations (or both).

My IE numbers (looking at the three biggest installations):

IE percentage: 80, 90, 98 - IE6 percentage: 30, 50, 40

No Chrome. No Safari. Rest is Firefox (2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and 3.6).

I weep when I consider the amount of development time we waste catering for these IE users refusing to (or unable to) update.

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by fertel » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 2:41 PM UTC

In my small subset of the enterprise market, amongst my clients (large financial services firms) IE usage is 100%. Unfortunately I don't see this changing any time soon.

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by r7000 » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 2:50 PM UTC

r7000 wrote: post #9

I noticed IE drop below 50% last spring on http://flashcarddb.com It dropped from 50.17% in March to 49.05% in April, continuing to steadily decrease since then. My traffic is about 70% North American. I have many students. Macintosh is a 20% slice of my OS pie and Safari isn't too far behind Firefox in browser share. September => IE: 48%, Firefox: 24%, Safari: 16%, Chrome: 10%

Interesting stat tidbit:

Browser stats for Mac users only:

Safari: 75%, Firefox: 20.2%, Chrome: 4.5%

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by cryptoz » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 2:51 PM UTC

pmjordan wrote: post #5

trafficlight wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

20% Chrome is surprising. I would've guessed Firefox's share to be much larger.

I'm not sure, but Woobius might be UK-centric, and Google have been heavily pushing Chrome in TV advertising there.

Wow, Google runs ads on Television? I consume all of my video media from the Internet these days so I guess I just didn't know, but that's surprising to me. Do they run the same type of promotional videos that you find on YouTube about Chrome, or are they totally different adverts?

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by ck2 » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 2:59 PM UTC

I bet a good percentage of that 50% are bots using the IE user-agent.

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by swombat » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 3:00 PM UTC

pmjordan wrote: post #5

trafficlight wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

20% Chrome is surprising. I would've guessed Firefox's share to be much larger.

I'm not sure, but Woobius might be UK-centric, and Google have been heavily pushing Chrome in TV advertising there.

Yep, we are fairly UK-centric. I should have mentioned that.

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by pmjordan » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 3:00 PM UTC

cryptoz wrote: post #14

pmjordan wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure, but Woobius might be UK-centric, and Google have been heavily pushing Chrome in TV advertising there.

Wow, Google runs ads on Television? I consume all of my video media from the Internet these days so I guess I just didn't know, but that's surprising to me. Do they run the same type of promotional videos that you find on YouTube about Chrome, or are they totally different adverts?

You make a good point, I consume all my television via streaming services, too. It's possible that the adverts are different for that compared to broadcast TV. A cursory web search for Chrome TV ads does appear to confirm they're broadcasting them though.

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by motters » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 3:02 PM UTC

Surely this must be a sign from the gods of Silicon Heaven.

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by ErrantX » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 3:13 PM UTC

pilif wrote: post #11

Unfortunately, I have to deal with a much different picture in my case. The web application is often used by either complete computer illiterates or users in large corporate installations (or both). My IE numbers (looking at the three biggest installations): IE percentage: 80, 90, 98 - IE6 percentage: 30, 50, 40 No Chrome. No Safari. Rest is Firefox (2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and 3.6). I weep when I consider the amount of develo…

I nearly fell off my chair when one of our new enterprise customers asked me if we could provide them the app... but with Firefox support because that was all they used.

Heaven :)

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by nileshtrivedi » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 3:13 PM UTC

cryptoz wrote: post #14

pmjordan wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure, but Woobius might be UK-centric, and Google have been heavily pushing Chrome in TV advertising there.

Wow, Google runs ads on Television? I consume all of my video media from the Internet these days so I guess I just didn't know, but that's surprising to me. Do they run the same type of promotional videos that you find on YouTube about Chrome, or are they totally different adverts?

Here in India, Google has run a full-page print ad recently.

http://www.labnol.org/india/google-chrome-ads-in-indian-news...