Win7 is not helping IE to raise its market share!

[Teddy*]

According to a recent study by research firm Net Applications, Microsoft's share of the browser market continues to decline. Microsoft's piece of the pie got significantly smaller between October 2008 and October of this year, dropping from 73.64 per cent to just 64.64 per cent. Mozilla's Firefox has been there to sweep up the new customers, rising from 19.06 per cent to an impressive 24.07 per cent.

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Internet Explorer (64.66%)

Mozilla Firefox (26.08%)

Safari (3.74%)

Google Chrome (3.17%)

Opera (1.53%)

Other (0.82%)

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[what]

A good OS doesn't help a bad web browser's marketshare =/

[Soldiers33]

A good OS doesn't help a bad web browser's marketshare =/

ie8 is actually not a bad browser, I think its the best browser ive ever used.

[what]

ie8 is actually not a bad browser, I think its the best browser ive ever used.

No, it's terrible.

[Doli]

No, it's terrible.

Works fine for me.

[spy beef]

I like IE more than firefox since it starts up so much faster and is integrated with BING features on the get go.

[+Chsoriano Subscriber²]

I like IE more than firefox since it starts up so much faster and is integrated with BING features on the get go.

IE is perfectly fine as a browser, and I also greatly appreciate it's fast startup. IE and Chrome launch the fastest on my computer, with Firefox taking even longer than Opera and Safari. I guess that's why I always end up using IE8.

[coresx]

IE just feels awkward. Web slices, accelerators, the tool bar, favourites. It all seems so out of place and I don't care what they all do or go deeper to learn though to be honest I did try recently and my feeling after a few minutes was whatever, get to the point, actually don't bother, snooze. I'm not usually like that, I will give things a quick go but IE just sucks my soul and doesn't tell me why.

[Petvas]

IE8 is the best browser for Windows 7. It integrates very well and offer features that other don't...Speed and Javascript performance isn't everything...

[still1]

No, it's terrible.

IE is the best. It is top in security..

http://news.softpedia.com/news/IE8-Tops-Fi...es-119284.shtml

IE is faster its starts up instantly on my PC.

[Ambroos]

IE6 was/is evil, IE7 was just okay but couldn't compare to FFx/Chrome/Safari, but there isn't really a reason not to use IE8. It works great with all webpages, is fast, integrated and the most secure.

[Teddy*]

IE6 was/is evil, IE7 was just okay but couldn't compare to FFx/Chrome/Safari, but there isn't really a reason not to use IE8. It works great with all webpages, is fast, integrated and the most secure.

Hmmm...i wouldn't say IE is the most secure!!!!

Firefox in my personal opinion is the most secure.

And i guess ie has a reputation for how unsecure it is!

[still1]

Hmmm...i wouldn't say IE is the most secure!!!!

Firefox in my personal opinion is the most secure.

And i guess ie has a reputation for how unsecure it is!

IE8 is more secure.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/IE8-Tops-Fi...es-119284.shtml

[neodorian]

I'm pretty sure that most people who use IE will do so because it's what comes with Windows. Those of us who want to use something else know where to get it. While I think IE7 and IE8 were huge improvements over their predecessors, they lost me a while ago and it would take a lot to bring me back from FF/Chrome. The interface alone is just...bleh...but yeah, a new OS won't change things drastically. Firefox is still the first thing I install on a new Win7 machine.

[Lord Ba'al]

A good OS doesn't help a bad web browser's marketshare =/

Good point you got there. If you put a turd in a nice box with ribbons on it, it's still a turd.

[08993]

Chrome since v4 has been crashing and having sporadic performance problems on my rig, Firefox doesn't have seperate processes for tabs (as yet) so I'm back on IE8 with Privoxy for content blocking.

[Linkinfamous]

Hmmm...i wouldn't say IE is the most secure!!!!

Firefox in my personal opinion is the most secure.

And i guess ie has a reputation for how unsecure it is!

Chrome and IE8 both have security measures that Firefox does not, such as per-tab processes, privilege isolation and so on. Not to mention the fact that they've had a relatively good security record as of late.

It would seem that the IE security record is starting to no longer apply. I'd take Chrome over both any day, but IE is starting to look better than FF....

[Growled Member]

I still prefer Firefox. IE8 is slower to load pages for me by a great deal. Until the IE team speeds up the browser I think they will continue to lose users.

Plus, extensions in FF pretty much blow IE away for me.

[_dandy_]

Given that IE8 on 7 is, for all intents and purposes, the same as IE8 on older versions of Windows (and has been available for quite a while now), I don't see how 7 should raise IE8's market share, for the simple reason that those who already had made up their mind about IE8 and were already running, for example, Firefox instead, will still prefer to run it on 7. Why should they switch back to a browser they're already familiar with and hate?

If 7 shipped with IE9 and it wasn't available on any other Windows version, then that would be relevant because it would mean that even those who just used "whatever browser ships with the OS" would actively go through the trouble of downloading/installing a third-party browser. Otherwise you see the results you're seeing now, which is, the trend remains exactly the same, and the OS the browser runs on is pretty much irrelevant.