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

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by robin_reala » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 4:05 PM UTC

davidedicillo wrote: post #24

The biggest problem with IE6 that I see with my company, is that a lot of corporate clients still have IE6 on their machines because of their lazy IT departments. So they don't care if only 0.0000000000001% of the traffic is from IE6 because it happens to be them.

We had this problem with publishers sticking with OS9 and Quark 4 a few years back: that kept them on Mac IE5. In the end we told that that while the admin system would continue to work in Mac IE5 the front end would not be viewable. Didn’t go down too well, but it simply wasn’t possible to provide the layouts they wanted in a format that worked with that browser.

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by Timmy_C » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 4:06 PM UTC

r7000 wrote: post #13

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%

That makes sense seeing as Safari is the default browser on ever brand new Mac and Google Chrome has only been available on the Mac for a year.

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by cloug » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 4:26 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?

they ran a massive campaign in the parisian subway a couple of months ago

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by maguay » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 4:30 PM UTC

I'm seeing around 30% IE (all versions) usage on tech centric blogs I run. Chrome's inching up on 20%.

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by tomjen3 » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 4:50 PM UTC

Am I the only one who would love to see Partio11s numbers? They are properly biased in the other direction, but still.

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by chc » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 4:53 PM UTC

Timmy_C wrote: post #32

r7000 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting stat tidbit: Browser stats for Mac users only: Safari: 75%, Firefox: 20.2%, Chrome: 4.5%

That makes sense seeing as Safari is the default browser on ever brand new Mac and Google Chrome has only been available on the Mac for a year.

On top of that, Mac users have less need to even think about what browser they use because IE isn't the default, which weights things disproportionately in Safari's favor. Safari is "good enough."

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by jacquesm » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 4:58 PM UTC

NinetyNine wrote: post #23

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…

Chrome is a disallowed program on our network by "Symantec Endpoint Protection". You can install Firefox but it's discouraged by the IT department. I wouldn't doubt if these setups are common among larger corporations.

If that's this issue:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=38

Then it appears to be resolved for some time now.

Another workaround here:

http://www.vaidy-dyngp.com/2009/02/google-chrome-symantec-en...

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by lwhi » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 5:03 PM UTC

I always find announcements like this ridiculous. It's like saying 50% of people wear blue jumpers - because it's so dependent on the sample group.

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by tyng » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 5:14 PM UTC

Another obvious but often overlooked factor that contributed to the decline of IE is the increased number people converting to Mac (anybody have a figure for this?). Because MS discontinued supporting IE on Mac years ago, there's not way to recover users lost to Safari and other browsers on the Mac front.

Re: Internet Explorer falls below 50% market share

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Post by sievert » Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 5:39 PM UTC

davidedicillo wrote: post #24

The biggest problem with IE6 that I see with my company, is that a lot of corporate clients still have IE6 on their machines because of their lazy IT departments. So they don't care if only 0.0000000000001% of the traffic is from IE6 because it happens to be them.

Yep! Started a new job on Monday with a fresh install of IE 6. I couldn't believe it, I'm now working at one of the companies where ie6 is forced upon all staff, even the web dev team. I complained that the majority of users are using a newer browser, and I was told that IE7 is currently being beta tested. I'm not holding my breath.