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Internet Explorer global usage share 94.8%

Onestat today reported that Microsoft's Internet Explorer has a total global usage share of 94.8%. A clear indication that Microsoft continues to dominate the global browser market.

Microsoft's IE 6 is currently the leading browser on the web. Microsoft's IE 6 global usage has increased with 1.8 percent from 66.3 percent to 68.1 percent since July 2003. Mozilla's global usage share is 1.8 percent and Opera 7 has a global usage of 0.8 percent.
 

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kanezfan
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not hard to do when you control everything. I just checked and it looks like my wife controls 94.5% of my life. see?
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Really? My wife is up to 97.21%

Way to go!
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it's not possible, theer are A LOT, ALOT alot alot alot of people that doesn't even know what a browser is. when you ask them to open their browser, they will be like what?? and then you say internet explorer, they will know.
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I recently got my gf down to 84.6% I feel bad for you guys in the 90's.
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my wife is at 98.8%

She told me I could post this information...

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Im open sourcing it at 50%...

nah... who am I kidding..

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alright...it was funny when kanez said it, tasteful when prime said it, and now it's just old
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alright...it was funny when kanez said it, tasteful when prime said it, but it's the damn brutal truth for all of us
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leishi85: The stats were probably gathered automatically from people visiting certain sites, no by asking people what they use.
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oh snap! that is the best smiley EVAR!~

whats the topic again.....
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not hard to do when you control everything.


not hard to do when there's a reason why 95% of the people use your product.
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not hard to do when there's a reason why 95% of the people use your product.
The reason being it comes preloaded with Windows and you can't uninstall it from your Windows computer. I thought it was pretty dirty of MS to make IE do double duty as your shell in Windows.

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The reason being it comes preloaded with Windows and you can't uninstall it from your Windows computer. I thought it was pretty dirty of MS to make IE do double duty as your shell in Windows.

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you can't uninstall it because as you said it does double duty, that doesnt mean you have to use it as a web browser if you think it's an absoloute POS like some people claim
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IE has its drawbacks, but the other browsers aren't perfect either. Mozilla has alot of bugs still, and I am sure opera does also.
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IE has its drawbacks, but the other browsers aren't perfect either. Mozilla has alot of bugs still, and I am sure opera does also.
Nothing is perfect. I actually prefer using Avant Browser, which uses IE for its browsing engine but implements all the stuff MS forgot, like tabbed browsing, skins, and popup blocking.

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A little may be due to the way some browsers change their User-Agent to match that of IE just to be safe. Some sites only allow IE so some users will just switch the User-Agent and never worry about it again. I doubt that's a very large percentage of the browsing population though...
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What I'd like to see are stats that show how many of those come from people that have no idea they're using IE . . . like AOL'ers and such.

Not that it takes away from the fact the IE dominates the market, but it isn't exactly like IE has such a margin by people consciously choosing it.

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Good to hear.
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of course, the voice of the young republicans would welcome this news!
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Let's not bring politics into this.
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and of course the left-wing voice of the internet would chime in to tell us once again why MS is evil and IE is the devil incarnate forced upon all internet users
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Good to hear.
Do you code webpages at all? Using CSSv2 and such.
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Do you code webpages at all? Using CSSv2 and such.

I doubt he's ever seen a website written in CSS2. Just becuse it's the most popular browser doesn't make it the best. It IS inferior technology. I saw Riki Lake's biography on A&E the other day. They said she was the most popular girl in college, the WHOLE college. Were you gonna rush out there and have sex with her? No, there are way hotter chicks out there. IE is the Riki Lake of web browsers.
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Does IE even fully support CSSv1 Specification?
I know it's supposed to support CSSv1 Core, but does it support the full spec?

IE is a crappy browser. But we can all talk about the merits of IE-alternatives without resorting to things that are completely invalid--like political affiliation.

Do you code webpages at all? Using CSSv2 and such.
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I doubt he's ever seen a website written in CSS2. Just becuse it's the most popular browser doesn't make it the best. It IS inferior technology. I saw Riki Lake's biography on A&E the other day. They said she was the most popular girl in college, the WHOLE college. Were you gonna rush out there and have sex with her? No, there are way hotter chicks out there. IE is the Riki Lake of web browsers.
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Does IE even fully support CSSv1 Specification?
I know it's supposed to support CSSv1 Core, but does it support the full spec?
Nope, it doesn't.
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Ya damn right it was
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I applaud Kanez for that fantastic comparison
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Just becuse it's the most popular browser doesn't make it the best. It IS inferior technology.
Whether or not IE represents "inferior technology" is purely your opinion.
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One thing to take into account, also, even given the figures for percentage. The figures used are for detected figures. Quite a few browsers show up as IE on sites, when they are not IE. Frankly, that figure is high, because the instances of Windows in use is not that high given the fact that some countries are moving away from Windows.

If Microsoft were to totally release the figures and analysis of survey and survey parms and data sources, the survey bias would be obvious. Take roughly 20% off that figure, you would get reality. They claimed 80% saturation when Netscape was at version 3.0, for example.

Inferior is in the eyes of the beholders, and enough think that IE is not best for them to use other browsers. Many more than 5% points is surfed using browsers other than IE, and Linux basicly does NOT run IE right without emulation or O\S support of Windows inside IE-- which is mucho slower than native Linux and browsers it supports itself. Ditto for Unix, Free BSD, and Solaris or the Sun Java Desktop, which is a Linux/Sun Java implementation. guesses combined for those??? 20-30% or more of market at present. None of those easily run IE 5.5 and up.

Macs can run IE, in versions of IE specifically for MAcs, but not a huge proportion of Macs surf a lot.

The Microsoft figures just do not stand up to scrutiny. No politics, REALITY.

John.
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I'm sick of browser wars. I look at it this way:

Forward, Back, Reload, Stop, Bookmarks. --- Sweet, that's a web browser.

Oh, with firebird I get no browser hijacks and no popups, and tabs. Sweet.

I pick firebird.

Who cares about the other crap? They're just web browsers, people....
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The Microsoft figures just do not stand up to scrutiny. No politics, REALITY.

John.
Your argument is weak at best. You say "No politics, REALITY." but how can you call what you just said "Reality" you just ball-parked and guesstimated your way through that "explanation" as to what percentage of the market IE actually holds.
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and for the the runner up, kanezfan who wins a lovely prize of attempted S-M byte whoring as seen above this post.
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you fail it!
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nope kanezfan you lose, kthxbye
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Camman: The results are plain wrong from so many points that it's useless. For instance, anyone using Opera will be reported as IE, some other browsers which aren't IE still report themselves as IE and on top of that, this isn't a survey of everyone on the planet, it is just a collection, which is refered to as the "global usage" as they are "average people" which is why, it is massively flawed (basically the same as TV ratings).
kanezfan
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* kanezfan is pwned after all ;[
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Camman: The results are plain wrong from so many points that it's useless. For instance, anyone using Opera will be reported as IE, some other browsers which aren't IE still report themselves as IE and on top of that, this isn't a survey of everyone on the planet, it is just a collection, which is refered to as the "global usage" as they are "average people" which is why, it is massively flawed (basically the same as TV ratings).
Well I understand that the figures do sound screwy and other browsers report themselves as IE, but for him to just throw some figures out there and say "well that's reality folks" is just ridiculous.

But it matters very little because you can see from the above screenshot that I cleary have mastered most everything by "Being winner", my computer often tells me "You're winner" and then I feel better about myself even if I do use IE and everyone hates me for it.
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Did someone say ............. Riki Lake?
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Wow, even after MS IE has almost killed all other browsers people are still sounding bitter. Yeah, its outdated and its forced on people, but the one thing that cannot be denied is that its the most used browser by far. Does it win by default? Of course. The fact that other browsers use the engine (and get registered as IE) indicates its dominance. Innovation of web scripting is hamstringed by this fact. They just have to update it, but there's no rush since they're in the lead.


Tortoise and the hare may be a good allegory. Although, Riki Lake had me laughing. BTW, I think that survey is a POS since they don't give any info on how they gathered the stats (not even a webpage that they monitored).

The most interesting thing (to me) is the low number of Mac users that use the web. There are more people using MSIE4 than Safari (all editions!!).

--------From the article------------
The most popular browsers on the web are:

1. Microsoft IE 6.0 68.1%
2. Microsoft IE 5.5 13.8%
3. Microsoft IE 5.0 11.8%
4. Mozilla 1.8%
5. Opera 7.0 0.8%
6. Microsoft IE 4.0 0.7%
7. Safari 0.48%
------------------------------

One question, if MSIE was not available with the OS, would the web be as popular as it is today? I used to BBS NCSC Mosiac before MS highjacked my OS.
kanezfan
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the web mae IE, not the otehr way around. IE won the war because it was pre-installed in the OS. up until that point, netscape was killing it. how many more people are now using MSN Messenger since it got forced down our collective throats with XP? Microsoft is a virus-like entity, i know you guys are going to jum down my throat over that, but don't be deceived. yes, they contributed greatly to the growth of the net in general, but there is no reason for them to want to murder everyone like they do.
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The most interesting thing (to me) is the low number of Mac users that use the web. There are more people using MSIE4 than Safari (all editions!!).
Actually, most of the Mac users I know use MSIE, though my Macs use iCab and Mozilla. Mozilla is pretty slow on all but my 900MHz G3, but iCab is speedy on both my 68k machines and my Power Macs. iCab is a standards-compliant browser though, so it doesn't like pages that are optimized for such and such browser, but it's fast.

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Dras: Have you given camino a shot? I found it to be pretty sweet. Give it a shot if you have a chance.
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Dras: Have you given camino a shot? I found it to be pretty sweet. Give it a shot if you have a chance.
Never heard of it before. I'll have a look-see.

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how many more people are now using MSN Messenger since it got forced down our collective throats with XP?
I dont know how it's like in other parts of the country/world but everyone I know and pretty much everyone I meet swear by AIM. I've been using it since like 1996, its simple and gets the job done and I use DeadAIM to get rid of all the extra crap I don't want. Always hated ICQ, and Yahoo Messenger, and I tried MSN Messenger for a while and realized it was teh suq so I never used it. Everyone I know has upgraded to XP within the last few years but I don't know any that use MSN Messenger.
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Once you start using trillian, you forget that there are individual clients for each IM network....
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tried trillian, wasnt a fan
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