p2pnet.net News:- Bill and the Boyz are bragging they’ve had the 100 millionth installation of Internet Explorer 7.
But the automatic upgrade means IE7 is, “simply being swapped out for older editions and hasn’t had an impact on Firefox’s continued climb,” says InformationWeek.
Its growth, “seems to be exclusively at the expense of IE 6,” it has Geoff Johnston, an analyst with the Web metrics company, saying. “It’s not eating into the Firefox share at all.”
Firefox’s share of the US browser market is at 14% and has continued to grow each of the last three months, the story has Johnston saying.
“I thought that IE 7 might flatten Firefox’s growth, but it’s not taken a hit from IE 7. All the movement there has been internal, from IE 6 users upgrading,” he says.
Net Applications confirmed the switch to IE 7 in its most recent data, and also noted the continued slide of IE overall, says InformationWeek, going on:.
“According to Net Applications, Internet Explorer accounted for 79.6% of all browsers used in December 2006, a drop from the 80.6% during the previous month. Firefox’s use, meanwhile, measured 14% in December, up from 13.5% in November. Also gaining ground in the last month of 2006 was Apple’s Safari, which climbed to 4.2% from 4%, and Opera, which saw its share increase from 0.7% to 0.9%.”
Maybe Microsoft has, “met its match with Firefox,” adds Johnston. “Maybe it just can’t compete against open-source and the whole world [as developers].”
Source [p2pnet]
