Internet Explorer global usage share 94.8%

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edited March 2004 in Science & Tech
[link=http://www.onestat.com]Onestat[/link] 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.

[blockquote]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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  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    not hard to do when you control everything. I just checked and it looks like my wife controls 94.5% of my life. see?
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Really? My wife is up to 97.21%

    Way to go!
  • leishi85leishi85 Grand Rapids, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    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.
  • croc_croc_ New
    edited January 2004
    I recently got my gf down to 84.6% I feel bad for you guys in the 90's.
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited January 2004
    my wife is at 98.8%

    She told me I could post this information...

    Gobbles
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Im open sourcing it at 50%...

    nah... who am I kidding..

    98% :bawling:

    :vimp:
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    alright...it was funny when kanez said it, tasteful when prime said it, and now it's just old ;)
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    shwaip wrote:
    alright...it was funny when kanez said it, tasteful when prime said it, but it's the damn brutal truth for all of us

    Fixt to represent the truth. :crazy:
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    <img src="http://atomnet.co.uk/ss/smilies/horse.gif"&gt;

    leishi85: The stats were probably gathered automatically from people visiting certain sites, no by asking people what they use.
  • croc_croc_ New
    edited January 2004
    oh snap! that is the best smiley EVAR!~

    whats the topic again.....
  • CammanCamman NEW! England Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    kanezfan wrote:
    not hard to do when you control everything.
    :rolleyes2

    not hard to do when there's a reason why 95% of the people use your product.
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Camman wrote:
    :rolleyes2

    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.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • CammanCamman NEW! England Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    drasnor wrote:
    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.

    -drasnor :fold:

    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
  • croc_croc_ New
    edited January 2004
    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.
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    croc_ wrote:
    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.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • EMTEMT Seattle, WA Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    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...
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited January 2004
    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.

    Got Gecko?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Good to hear.
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    of course, the voice of the young republicans would welcome this news!
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited January 2004
    Let's not bring politics into this.
  • CammanCamman NEW! England Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    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
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Thrax wrote:
    Good to hear.

    Do you code webpages at all? Using CSSv2 and such.
  • kanezfankanezfan sunny south florida Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Enverex wrote:
    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.
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited January 2004
    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.
    Enverex wrote:
    Do you code webpages at all? Using CSSv2 and such.
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak
    gets a good whiff of an S-M Byte.
    kanezfan wrote:
    I doubt he's ever seen a website written in CSS2. Just becuse it's the most popul...
    Houston, TX Member
    edited January 2004
    gets a good whiff of an S-M Byte.
    kanezfan wrote:
    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.
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    a2jfreak wrote:
    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.
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    a2jfreak wrote:
    * a2jfreak gets a good whiff of an S-M Byte.

    Ya damn right it was :cool:
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    I applaud Kanez for that fantastic comparison :vimp:
  • CammanCamman NEW! England Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    kanezfan wrote:
    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.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    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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