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Internet Explorer Market Share: February 2011

Mar. 1, 2011 Paul Thurrott | Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows
Microsoft blogged about its February 2011 browser market share this week. Highlights include:

  • IE increased in share this month by 0.78% across all OSes and saw an increase of 0.86% on Windows.

  • IE9 has now reached 0.66% market share across all Windows operating systems – even more impressive is that IE9 already has over 2% share on Windows 7.

  • IE9 RC has already seen over 11 million downloads, meaning since its release last Sept, IE9 has been downloaded over 36 million times (inclusive of IE9 Beta and RC downloads).

Put another way, share in both IE 8 and IE 9 grew in February. What's interesting to me is the year-over-year trend: IE up, Firefox down.

Figures are courtesy of the market trackers at Net Applications.

Discuss this Article 5

WindowsFanboy
on Mar 1, 2011
The 'year over year trend' link you gave is actually only the trend for the past month (January 2011-February 2011), so it doesn't mean much yet.
Here's the trend for the past year: http://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=1&qpcustom=Microsoft%20I...
Firefox is down 2.78%.
IE is down 3.88%.


Info Dave
on Mar 1, 2011
Net Applications posted a note today that may explain the phenomena you found. They adjusted their numbers based on changes in geographical data (relatively more users in China, and less in the US). To quote:

"These geographic shifts in internet usage have an significant impact on the global usage share numbers starting in February."

They had a major adjustment a couple of years back. This change had much less of an impact on the data.



chuckb84
on Mar 1, 2011
So, this is all you really need to know on this subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Usage_share_of_web_browsers_(Source_Net_Applications).svg

No comment needed.



pthurrott
on Mar 2, 2011
Chuck, yeah the chart that makes IE look bad overall is absolutely all you need to know. Except that it leaves out the fact that IE 8 has only grown, often faster than Chrome, and is the number one browser overall. Inconvenient truth, anyone?
ashuvashu
on Mar 3, 2011
forget about shares which anyway by the end of this year going to change so much that MS will not release any other version of IE(as they will have very bleak market share), my point is do u really think IE is standard browser, if u compare IE9 with FF 3 it will not stand, forget about FF new versions. check this http://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/ie9/ie9_vs_fx4.html

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