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Microsoft: IE 9 Hits 20 Percent of All Windows 7 Users

Sep. 1, 2011 Paul Thurrott | Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows

Microsoft today revealed that Internet Explorer 9 is now used by over 20 percent of all Windows 7 users, according to data from Net Applications. In the US, it's even higher: IE 9 is used by over 28 percent of all Windows 7 users.

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Of course, this isn't the story most tech writers will focus on, and you can expect the usual "IE share continues to fall" stories to appear today. But the Net Applications data also shows that overall IE usage dipped almost imperceptibly, from 55.97 percent in July to 55.31 percent last month. I'd call that "flat," personally.

On that note, Firefox usage was also flat, Chrome usage went up slightly from 14.33 to 15.51 percent, and Safari usage was unchanged month over month. In other words, there were no major changes at all. So the IE 9 stuff is, in fact, news. It's the only thing interesting that changed in web browser usage last month.

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yoshipod
on Sep 1, 2011
What great spin. I love how when IE loses overall share, its imperceptibly, but when they gained that same share last year, Paul dedicated entire articles to that small spike. Half a point per is not imperceptible when it occurs each and every month. The trend is clear, IE is losing overall share and there is no reason to believe it will stop anytime soon.
chuckb84
on Sep 1, 2011
Here's all you really need to know about IE's long, slow, continuing decline: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Usage_share_of_web_br... Soon, less than half of all users will be using IE.
fjarlq
on Sep 1, 2011
Paul's perspective is even more skewed than that, yoshipod. This month, Net Applications changed their report to separate out desktop from mobile/tablet, because that segment is now over 6% of all browsing (and growing at an accelerating pace). That means IE's "imperceptible" drop of half a point excludes the mobile/tablet sector, where IE is practically nonexistent (IE must be part of the "Other" category in the mobile/tablet numbers, with less than 2% and about half the size as a year ago).
Mustang17
on Sep 2, 2011
A browser about a year old gets 20% use of the one of the fastest selling OS's ever. And we still have those who doubt it. And perhaps IE will only have 50% overall of all browser share. Am I missing something here? If we are going to argue over less than half a percent of a browser share market, then I am going out to have a beer.

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