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Microsoft Takes Another Net Step Backwards As Global IE Share Drops To New Low (MSFT)
Silicon Alley Insider — ... ever dream of. Its share of ads is now increasing, but only because it is losing billions while even AOL continues to print money. Its share of the browser market, meanwhile, continues to decrease, a trend that to our knowledge has never happened in a market Microsoft wanted to dominate. If nothing else, this should alert those who regard Microsoft's Internet domination as a foregone conclusion that they might want to rethink things. Browser market share from November, from Net Applications (via Fudzilla): Firefox Share Tops 20% for ...

IE Market Share: Down Nearly 12 Percent in Two Years
Digital Daily — ... The stock market’s performance this past year isn’t the only the only thing that’s charting historic lows. According to the latest metrics from Net Applications, Microsoft (MSFT) Internet Explorer’s share of the browser market has slipped below 70 percent. IE’s market share topped out at 68.15 percent in December, down from 69.77 percent in November and 71.27 percent in October. Astonishing, given that it began the year at around 75 percent. Meanwhile, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and even Netscape rose in share, with Firefox exceeding 20 percent for a full month, ...

Internet Explorer market share continues to slide, Firefox still climbing
Boy Genius Report — According to data from market research firm Net Applications, Microsoft’s web browser market share has dropped below 70 percent in the month of November. Yes, 70 percent is still an overwhelming majority but considering Internet Explorer is said to have peaked with close to 95 percent of the market, this new data represents yet another area where the scales are continuing to level out. Is the era of the Redmond behemoth finally coming to an end? Not any time soon of course, but Microsoft is indeed having its fortress walls slowly chipped away in nearly ...

Firefox Tops 20% in November, IE Now Under 70%
ReadWriteWeb — ... According to the latest data from Net Application, in November, Mozilla's Firefox browser surpassed 20% market share for the first time in its history, while Microsoft's IE7 now only commands under 70% of the browser market. Google's ...

Internet Explorer loses users to Firefox, Safari, Chrome
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Internet Explorer share drops to an all-time low (again)
Download Squad — ... Despite some excitement generated by Windows 7, things aren't all rosy for Microsoft as they continue to lose ground in the browser market. On December 1, NetApplications announced that Firefox had maintained more than a 20% share for the first time in ...