Internet Explorer Is Far From Dead
Written by Alan Monday, 2 August 2010 06:25
On August 1st NetMarketShare released their figures for July and, for the second straight month, Internet Explorer’s numbers rose. After reaching a 6 month low of 59.75% in May, IE rose to 60.74 in July. And the gain has come at the expense of both Firefox and Chrome.
Firefox dropped for the third straight month and is now down to 22.91%. Chrome, meanwhile, suffered it’s first setback, dropping from 7.24% in June to 7.16% in July.
While the browser wars are wide open again, it does seem that Microsoft’s hard work since the disaster that was IE6 is paying off. The incompatibility, security holes and lack of standards in IE6 bit Microsoft pretty hard and allowed Firefox to jump into the mainstream and grow by leaps and bounds.
With IE9 now taking shape on the horizon this bodes well for Microsoft.
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