Neowin News Feed for: Statcounter

StatCounter: Windows 8 on 4.69 percent of PCs six months after launch

John Callaham — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:24:30 +0100

New numbers from StatCounter claim that, six months after the launch of Windows 8, Microsoft's latest OS is installed and used on 4.69 percent of all PCs worldwide. Read more...

StatCounter: Windows 8 now installed on 3.77 percent of PCs that surf the web

John Callaham — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:16:07 +0000

Data from the StatCounter service shows that Windows 8 is currently installed on 3.77 percent of all PCs that the service monitors, compared to 2.34 percent from the beginning of 2013. Read more...

Did Hurricane Sandy affect Windows 8 adoption?

John Callaham — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:22:38 +0000

Neowin has received information from StatCounter which seems to show Windows 8's adoption rate below that of Windows 7 in its first month, and suggests Hurricane Sandy could be to blame. Read more...

StatCounter and Net Applications still disagree on IE vs Chrome

John Callaham — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 05:26:29 +0100

StatCounter and Net Applications still can't agree if Google's Chrome web browser is indeed ahead of Microsoft's Internet Explorer in web browser market share. Read more...

Could Windows Phone overtake Blackberry in the US by fall?

John Callaham — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:05:34 +0100

A new projection of figures supplied by StatCounter shows that Microsoft's Windows Phone OS could overtake Research in Motion's Blackberry operating system in the US market sometime this fall. Read more...

StatCounter: Chrome up, IE and Firefox drop

Brad Sams — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:54:41 +0100

StatCounter has published its monthly statistics for July and shows that Chrome continues to climb while Firefox and IE are continuing their decline in market share. Make the jump to learn more. Read more...

Chrome and IE: a stalemate in June

John Callaham — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 18:53:35 +0100

New data from StatCounter suggests that the massive user growth for Google's Chrome browser has now reach a plateau while Microsoft's Internet Explorer fall has slowed. Read more...

Is Windows 7 now installed on the majority of PCs?

John Callaham — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 17:35:05 +0100

New data from StatCounter claims that Windows 7 is now installed on 50.2 percent of all PCs worldwide, but Net Applications still shows Windows XP with a slight lead. Read more...

StatCounter critical (again) of Microsoft's IE browser claims

John Callaham — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:38:13 +0100

StatCounter posted up a recent blog entry which went into heavy detail about how how it feels its web browser statistics are better than Net Applications, which are favored by Microsoft for IE stats. Read more...

Chrome overtakes Internet Explorer in market share

Tim Schiesser — Mon, 21 May 2012 09:37:35 +0100

For the first time in many years, Internet Explorer has lost its majority crown for worldwide browser market share, falling to Google Chrome by the smallest of margins in the past week Read more...

Study: 1366x768 now the most popular screen resolution

John Callaham — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:43:38 +0100

New statistics from StatCounter claim that the most popular screen resolution for PC monitors is now 1366x768 as it has overtaken 1024x768 for the first time since stats were first recorded in 2009. Read more...

StatCounter: Microsoft's post about Net Applications is "one-sided"

John Callaham — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:21:00 +0000

StatCounter is disputing Microsoft's recent Internet Explorer post where it says it prefers Net Applications' stats method, with StatsCounter calling Microsoft's article "somewhat one-sided." Read more...

Microsoft picks Net Applications for web browser stats

John Callaham — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:26:35 +0000

In a new blog post, Microsoft has confirmed that it prefers the techniques that Net Applications uses to track web browser market share over its rival StatCounter. Read more...

Chrome version 15 is world's number one web browser

John Callaham — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:59:34 +0000

The site statistic service StatCounter claims that Google's Chrome 15 web browser has now pushed ahead of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 as the world's most popular web browser. Read more...