According to Net Applications, Microsoft's Internet Explorer web-browser lost more market-share during September while rivals Firefox and Chrome gained. During the month of September, Internet Explorer usage dropped by 1.3 percent, sitting at a still-dominant 65.7 percent. However, the browser has dropped 8.5 percent in 12 months, with 2.6 percent being in the last three months alone.
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Maybe if IE was more standards compliant then they wouldn't loose as much marketshare as they have been.
The most unfortunate statistic with IE is IE6. It's still at 24.42%, by far the largest share for IE, and was at 25.25% last month. Coming in a distant second is IE7 with 19.39% (20% less!) and IE8 at 16.84%.
If Mozilla sets up Firefox so it could be controlled via Group Policy as well as making the built-in updater centrally manageable then it would have an easier time getting onto Corporate machines that are locked down on to IE6 (or 7, if they are lucky).
I believe corporations also have trouble with upgrading from IE6 because they don't want to spend the money, which could be millions, on redoing their "internal" applications/intranets to run on Firefox correctly as well as having to "retrain" employees on the new browser.
On another note, only goofy computer nincompoops use Chrome. It's absolute garbage. These are the same people that use Google EVERYTHING only (i.e. Google search, Google Maps, Google homepages). Enough!!!!! Google maps for one thing, is much less acurate than that of Yahoo maps.
The whole aspect of this nonsense is that Microsoft Internet Explorer uses too much resources of anyones system. If Microsoft makes there browser more light weight then it will be gaining again even when it comes to opening and running the browser i have to wait a minute for it to be stable enough for me to start surfing addresses etc...
